Within four days in February 1862, a Union amphibious force took Roanoke Island, wrecked the Confederate "Mosquito Fleet" and opened North Carolina's coast.
Read the storyIn March 1865, a battered Confederate army struck Sherman's column in the North Carolina pines. It nearly broke the Union left, then lost the war's last big offensive.
A powder ship that fizzled, a general who turned back, and a brutal night fight: how the Union took the sandy fortress guarding Wilmington, North Carolina.
Nine months after it stopped the CSS Virginia, the USS Monitor went down in a gale off Cape Hatteras. Its wreck was found in 1973, and its turret was raised in 2002.
In a small North Carolina farmhouse, Sherman and Johnston settled the largest surrender of the Civil War, but only after Washington threw out their first deal.
Nine months after its duel with the CSS Virginia, the Union ironclad Monitor went down in a gale off Cape Hatteras. Its wreck was found in 1973.
Harriet Jacobs hid for nearly seven years in a space above a shed in Edenton, N.C., then wrote one of the most important slave narratives by a woman.
