F.C. Salisbury collection, 1915-1964.

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F.C. Salisbury collection, 1915-1964.

Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and Salisbury's original photographs and copies of prints, older photographs, and photographs clipped from early newspapers chiefly of buildings and scenes in Beaufort, Morehead City, Newport, and rural ares of Carteret County, N.C.; together with scribble notes, correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings. Subjects include blockade of the North Carolina coast, capital punishment, Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, Fort Macon, lighthouses, Josiah S. Pender, Emeline J. Pigott, Portsmouth Island, Quakers, shipwrecks, and windmills.

2 fibredex boxes.

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Pigott, Emeline Jamison, 1836-1919

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Emeline Jamison Pigott (December 15, 1836 – May 26, 1919) was a spy for the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. For several years, she hid contraband messages in her skirt and carried them between New Bern, North Carolina (NC), and local sea ports. United States (U.S.) military and civilian law enforcement almost caught her several times. In February 1865, U.S. Army Provost Marshal Major Graves arrested her for treason against the United States on the charge of espionage - blo...

United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln)

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Joseph A. Cody of Kansas served as a private in the Frontier Guard and as U.S. Indian agent at the Upper Platte Agency in Nebraska Territory, May 14, 1861 - Apr. 14, 1862. As a member of the Frontier Guard, a volunteer company commanded by Gen. James H. Lane and composed of men from Kansas and Illinois, Cody, in the spring of 1861, protected Lincoln at the White House in the absence of regular troops. It is likely that Cody obtained his Indian agent appointment as a resu...

Salisbury, F. C. (Frank Currier), 1874-1964

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Frank C. Salisbury (1874-1964) came to Morehead City, N.C., from Warsaw, New York. He became editor of "The Coaster" of Morehead City and in 1924 the "Carteret County News-Times." Salisbury was one of the principal organizers and first president of the Carteret County Historical Society. His interest in Carteret County history led him to write numerous articles on local history for which he was awarded in 1958, 1962, and 1964, the Smithwick Cup, top award of the North Carolina Society of County ...

Pender, Josiah Solomon, 1819-1864

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