2020-09 Putnal
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VANCE, Zebulon Baird (1830-1894) was a Confederate military officer in the American Civil War, the 37th and 43rd Governor of North Carolina, and U.S. Senator. A prolific writer, Vance became one of the most influential Southern leaders of the Civil War and postbellum periods. As a leader of the "New South", Vance favored the rapid modernization of the Southern economy, railroad expansion, school construction, and reconciliation with the North. War-date Confederate Document Signed "Z.B. Vance" 1pp. folio, March 16, 1864, Raleigh, North Carolina, being a commission for 2nd Lieutenant Frank B. Craige. Fine condition. Captain Frank B. Craige, youngest son of Burton Craige, was a student at the Hillsboro military institute when, at the age of sixteen years, he enlisted in Company I, Thirty-third regiment, State troops, under Col. Moulton Avery. He was elected lieutenant, and was promoted to captain. He went to the front in time to participate in the battle of the Wilderness, and in his first encounter with the enemy was hit by a bullet, knocked down and stunned, and was carried from the field as dead; but fortunately the buckle of his belt kept him from serious injury, and he went through the hard service of his command at Spotsylvania Court House and all the remainder of the struggle. He was captured in Battery Gregg, in April, 1865, and was sent to Washington, where among his fellow prisoners he recognized his brother Kerr. For fear of being separated they kept their relationship a secret, and they were both sent to Johnson's island. After the close of hostilities he took charge of some plantations of his mother's, in Tennessee.
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