The Vance House is one of the oldest structures in Statesville, North Carolina. This house served as headquarters for Governor Zebulon Baird Vance during his exile from the North Carolina State Capitol in 1865 during the last months of the American Civil
This Week in the Civil War, A weekly updated day by day account of the American Civil War. The election of 1862 is over and the results are severely disappointing to Abraham Lincoln and his fellow Republicans. Lost are the governorships of New York and Ne