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The end of the Civil War in Orange County, 1865

Johnston’s Hillsborough headquarters, the Chapel Hill skirmish and the Bennett Place surrender (site now in Durham County).

3 works in the index name this event.

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Works across North Carolina libraries and archives whose catalog description names this event. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it.

Everett family papers,

Everett (Family) · 1919

The papers are those of R. Oscar Everett and his wife, Katherine (Robinson) Everett. The collection is comprised primarily of correspondence concerning the Durham-Orange County Historical Association, the Bennett Place …

Sketches Of The History Of The University Of North Carolina: Together With A Catalogue Of Officers And Students, 1789-1889

1889

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