North Carolina Unionists and the Fight Over Secession (Steve M. Miller - UA) music “The Devil’s to Pay”: John

“The Devil’s to Pay”: John Buford at Gettysburg

with slaveholders determined to re-enslave freedmen left behind the shifting Union lines

Theodore Roosevelt

Fry examines several key crisis points to show how enlisted men developed political awareness that went beyond personal loyalties

When his criticism of the Union’s prosecution of the war became too much for Greeley

North Carolina Unionists and the Fight Over Secession (Steve M. Miller - UA) music “The Devil’s to Pay”: Johnby Steve M. Miller Before the Civil War, North Carolina was divided by the battle over secession. Some state leaders remained loyal to the Union because they saw the potential for compromise with Northern states. William Alexander Graham helped broker the Compromise of 1850. John Motley Morehead and Jonathan Worth led the campaign against secession in early 1861. Most continued to serve their state under the Confederacy. Although Zebulon B. Vance