Battle of Monroe's Cross Roads
Date(s): March 19, 1865 Location: Tag(s): Crime/Violence, War
In 1865, Union Major General William Tecumseh Sherman advanced North from Georgia, through the Carolinas, with the intention of regrouping with Northern forces in Virginia. As Sherman's army advanced into North Carolina, Major General Judson Kilpatrick's cavalry division screened the left flank. On the evening of March 9th, Kilpatrick's brigade decided to set up camp in Cumberland County, about fifteen...
Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
Date(s): December 8, 1863 Location: Tag(s): Slavery
Lincoln issued this proclamation with hopes of expediting Reconstruction. By this time during the war, a vast portion of Confederate states were under Federal control and needed reorganization of their governments. His plan proposed that if ten percent of a state's voter population swore allegiance to the future alliance of the United States as well as approving Emancipation, then Reconstruction...
Transportation Takes Over
Date(s): July 14, 1878 Location: Tag(s): African-Americans, Economy, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism
It was the middle of October in Alexandria. The fair had just finished last weekend, and the town was beginning to quiet down again except for the hubbub over the railroad steamer. Mr. John W. Thompson was the one who had brought news of this to the town including a long freight and passenger list. On this list, all kinds of people were added as passengers for the next trip. Mr. Thompson and everyone...
Address to the Black People of North Carolina
Date(s): December 19, 1870 Location: Tag(s): African-Americans, Politics
Beginning in the fall of 1867, the Military Reconstruction Acts allowed qualified residents of ex-Confederate states to elect delegates to new Constitutional conventions. The Republican Party exclusively supported the implementation of these Acts, consequently gaining full support from the black community. Furious over losing the war and slave property, ex-Confederate Democrats molested blacks at the...