On July 7, 1861, Governor John Ellis died and Henry Toole Clark was elevated to fill the position.
Civil War
On July 5, 1865, ex-Confederate Governor Zebulon Baird Vance was paroled on his honor after imprisonment at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.
On July 3, 1863, 34-year-old Lt. Colonel Isaac E. Avery of the 6th North Carolina State Troops died from mortal wounds he received the previous day.
On June 30, 1863, the 35th United States Colored Troops regiment officially mustered in New Bern.
On June 26, 1862, Col. Montfort Sidney Stokes of the First Regiment, North Carolina State Troops, was mortally wounded in an engagement at Elyson’s Mill, V
On June 18, 1867, the state-run artificial limbs factory in Raleigh closed due to a lack of business.
On June 17, 1864, Brigadier General Gabriel Rains was appointed chief of the newly created Torpedo Bureau of the Confederate army.
On June 14, 1864, Lt. Gen. Leonidas Polk was killed at Pine Mountain, Ga. While he was observing the Union’s position with Gens. Joseph E.
On June 10, 1861, Henry Lawson Wyatt lost his life at the Battle of Bethel in Virginia.
On June 9, 1864, the SS Pevensey, a Confederate blockade runner was run aground at Pine Knoll Shores by the Union supply ship New Berne.
