Civil War

Black regiments in the Civil War are still a relatively obscure aspect of American History. Though many didn’t battle, these units were vital in keeping…

Thousands of men from North Carolina enlisted to fight in the Civil War, many them for the Confederacy, but some – including 1,300, white, eastern North…

As the sentinel of Beaufort Inlet and protector of the Crystal Coast, Fort Macon has stood weathering storms on the southern Outer Banks for nearly 200…

You’ve may have heard of the recent discovery of a Civil War era shipwreck found off the North Carolina coast. Underwater archeologists are now almost…

A Civil War-era shipwreck has been discovered off the North Carolina coast. George Olsen has more.The state Department of Natural and Cultural Resources…

This week on the Down East Journal, re-enactors and historians are gearing up for Saturday’s Bentonville Battlefield artillery living history program.…

A new community shelter recently opened in Greenville, providing safe housing for more than 60 residents. This week on the Down East Journal, we speak…

To mark the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, we speak with historian and Civil War re-enactor Phillip Brown who is retracing the steps of…

We profile the soon-to-be-built North Carolina Civil War History Center in Fayetteville. They’re seeking 100 stories from each of North Carolina’s 100…

This weekend, the CSS Neuse Civil War Interpretive Center is holding a grand opening, ribbon cutting and a 150th commemorative program marking the…