- Title
- Our State
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- Date
- July 2011
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Our State
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POOR LEADERSHIP Cl IALLENGES TIIE CONFEDERACY FROM TI IE OI JTSET OF TI IE WAR.
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SOON AFTERWARD. NORTH CAROLINA HAS A HOLD AND INSPIRING
DEFENDER IN ZEBULON BAIRD VANCE.
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a utceeoion of timid.
Stonewall,
Union
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undos, tlx: Confederate Anny fields a cadre of
brilliant, resource liil, aggressive commandos; meanwhile,
the Confederate government in Richmond. Virginia, drafts
mediocre men of limited vision anil combative personalities
в
a
unlalentcd.
cs of astonishing victories on the
luttlehekl accompanied by a confused muddle of politics
that seriously impair the anny s alxltly to lx: fed, supplied, atxl
deployed, meanwhile turning popular sentiment in North
Carolina against the Confederate government in Richmond.
For the durarion of the war. North Carolina will not only-
light the Yankees; it will light Richinoixl — widi speeches,
news|4|»rr editorials, impasrioned let ten, court mbngs, and
legislative ilccrees, and sometimes in a literal dash of aims.
Ill-equipped for war
At tlie outbreak of war in the Old North State, weak
leadership is quite a literal term. The governor w ho presides
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