North Carolina Unionists and the Fight Over Secession (Steve M. Miller - UA) music setting off explosive debates inside

setting off explosive debates inside the Confederate government and within the ranks of the army over the ethics of using “weapons that wait

He won because he possessed an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men

by Harold Holzer

with slaveholders determined to re-enslave freedmen left behind the shifting Union lines

North Carolina Unionists and the Fight Over Secession (Steve M. Miller - UA) music setting off explosive debates insideby Steve M. Miller Before the Civil War, North Carolina was divided by the battle over secession. Some state leaders remained loyal to the Union because they saw the potential for compromise with Northern states. William Alexander Graham helped broker the Compromise of 1850. John Motley Morehead and Jonathan Worth led the campaign against secession in early 1861. Most continued to serve their state under the Confederacy. Although Zebulon B. Vance