North Carolina Civil War Resources–Online

The State Library of North Carolina has digitized and uploaded a number of Civil War related publications (both state documents and publications by the NC Confederate Centennial Commission) to the NC Digital Collections.

Bloody Sixth: the Sixth North Carolina Regiment http://digital.ncdcr.gov/u?/p249901coll22,284870

Bloody Sixth: the Sixth North Carolina Regiment: Footnotes http://digital.ncdcr.gov/u?/p249901coll22,285391

Register of North Carolina troops, 1861 http://digital.ncdcr.gov/u?/p249901coll22,269147

Register of North Carolina troops, 1864 http://digital.ncdcr.gov/u?/p249901coll22,269184

Five points in the record of NC in the great War of 1861-5 : report of the Committee http://digital.ncdcr.gov/u?/p249901coll22,264493

Histories of the several regiments and battalions from NC, in the great war 1861-’65 v.1 http://digital.ncdcr.gov/u?/p249901coll22,264606

Histories of the several regiments and battalions from NC, in the great war 1861-’65 v.2 http://digital.ncdcr.gov/u?/p249901coll22,265485

Histories of the several regiments and battalions from NC, in the great war 1861-’65 v.3 http://digital.ncdcr.gov/u?/p249901coll22,266420

Histories of the several regiments and battalions from NC, in the great war 1861-’65 v.4 http://digital.ncdcr.gov/u?/p249901coll22,267315

Histories of the several regiments and battalions from NC, in the great war 1861-’65 v.5 http://digital.ncdcr.gov/u?/p249901coll22,268192

Guide to military organizations and installations: North Carolina, 1861-1865 http://digital.ncdcr.gov/u?/p249901coll22,269412

North Carolina at Gettysburg http://digital.ncdcr.gov/u?/p249901coll22,269309

Roster of North Carolina troops in the War between the states, volume 1 http://digital.ncdcr.gov/utils/getfile/collection/p249901coll22/id/270017/filename/271656.pdf

Roster of North Carolina troops in the War between the states, volume 2 http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/ref/collection/p249901coll22/id/325283

Roster of North Carolina troops in the War between the states, volume 3 http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/ref/collection/p249901coll22/id/352800

Roster of North Carolina troops in the War between the states, volume 4 http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/ref/collection/p249901coll22/id/352045

Honorables unbound! Let’s go to the tape

Once again the General Assembly takes the floor, and once again we can expect the ensuing somnolence to be relieved by intermittent bursts of rhetorical excess. Three favorites from past sessions:

— Opposing a 2006 ethics bill that would cut back legislators’ take from lobbyists, Rep. Drew Saunders, D-Mecklenburg, argued that “Even the baby Jesus accepted gifts, and I don’t think it corrupted Him.”

— Rep. John Kerr, D-Wayne, stood up for the tobacco industry in 1990: “If it’s so bad, why do you see all the Japanese and the French and the English, every time you watch them on television, they’re all smoking?”

— In 1989, speaking against obscene bumper stickers, Sen. Bob Shaw, R-Guilford, imagined the pioneers tossing aside freedom of speech “if somebody had written four-letter words all over their wagons. There would have been some hangings, ladies and gentlemen.”.