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You ate what??: After reading the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, students will use primary sources to relate Paul's experience to the life of a North Carolina soldier. Students will create their own primary source journal entry.; Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts); By Kari Siko.

Soldiers' food: In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 5.4; Soldiers in the Civil War survived on food that could be preserved and carried long distances -- mainly hardtack, cornmeal, bacon, molasses, and coffee.; Format: article

The Shelton Laurel massacre: In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 6.9; In 1862, Union sympathizers and Confederate deserters from Madison County, North Carolina, raided farms to steal food and supplies. In response, the 64th North Carolina infantry rounded up fifteen men and executed all but two, though only five of the men killed had taken part in the raid.; Format: article

Civil War uniforms: In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 5.3; Article describes the clothing and baggage of northern and southern soldiers during the U.S. Civil War. Includes video of a Civil War reenactment.; Format: article

Mustering out of the Confederate army: In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 7.12; Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrendered his army to William T. Sherman on April 26, 1865, at Bennett Place in present-day Durham, North Carolina. Soldiers under Johnston's command received paroles from Union authorities and were sent home. Includes video of a Civil War reenactment.; Format: article

Salisbury prison: In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 5.11; The Confederate military prison at Salisbury, North Carolina, held nearly 9,000 inmates by the fall of 1864, in horrifying conditions.; Format: article

The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony: In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 6.4; During the Civil War, former slaves freed by the Union army and African Americans who escaped to Union lines were given a village on Roanoke Island.; Format: article

The battle of Roanoke Island: In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 3.3; Dispatch from Roanoke Island to northern newspapers after the Union victory in February 1862. Includes historical commentary.; Format: newspaper

Nat Turner's Rebellion: In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 9.1; In 1831, Nat Turner, an enslaved man in Southampton, Virginia, led an insurrection in which a small band of slaves and free African Americans killed fifty-five whites. After the revolt, white militias and mobs hunted down blacks suspected of taking part in this or other insurrections, and southern states passed harsh new laws restricting the freedoms of both slaves and free blacks.; Format: article; By L. Maren Wood and David Walbert.

History of a scout: In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 8.2; Account of a slave who escaped from a plantation in Jones County, North Carolina, to Union lines during the Civil War and served as a scout for the Union army. Includes historical commentary.; Format: book

Spanish empire failed to conquer Southeast: In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 3.6; Juan Pardo’s expedition erected six forts in the Southeastern interior, including one at Guatari. Most of them seem to have fallen in short order. That result wasn’t surprising. The forts were isolated, lightly garrisoned in most cases, dependent on the Indians for food, and prone to trigger Indian resentment.; Format: article

From Caledonia to Carolina: The Highland Scots: In Colonial North Carolina, page 5.5; Many Scots immigrated to North Carolina due to growing population, changing methods of farming, and the defeat of the Highland Scots by English and Scottish forces in 1746. The first organized settlement of Highland Scots was in Cumberland County, where 350 people moved to in 1739.; Format: article; By Kathryn Beach.

A female raid: In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 6.7; Newspaper coverage of a raid on local stores by Confederate soldier's wives in Salisbury, North Carolina on March 18, 1863. Includes historical commentary.; Format: newspaper

The Battle of Bentonville: In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 7.9; Memoir of a Confederate soldier describing the march to Bentonville and the battle there on March 19, 1865. He describes the desperate state of the Confederate army by the end of the war. Includes historical commentary.; Format: book; Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.

The Cherokee and the Trail of Tears: In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 10.1; In 1836, years of increasing tension between Cherokees in the southeastern U.S. and white settlers eager to encroach on Cherokee land culminated in the Treaty of New Echota, which called for the forcible removal of Cherokees to the western Indian Territory. Two years later, federal troops and state militias enforced the treaty, sending large groups of Indians west with inadequate supplies. Many died along the way. The forced removal of the Indians from their land has become known as the Trail of Tears.; Format: article

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