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Zebulon Vance
Zebulon Baird Vance was born near Asheville, NC on May 13, 1830. He studied law at the University of Chapel Hill and commenced practice in 1852 in Asheville. During the Civil War he became part of the Confederate army and was promoted to colonel, and was elected governor of North Carolina in 1862. He was arrested and imprisoned in Washington D.C. in 1865 for Confederate activities. He was a Democrat in the United States Senate off and on for several years and died on April 14, 1894.



Appomattox Court House
On Palm Sunday, 1865, the South's general, Robert E. Lee, surrendered to the Union, signaling the end of the war. The general had quickly shown his defeat after being surrounded on three sides by Union troops. This was the last battle to be fought in Virginia. The winning Union general, Ulysses S. Grant, later became president of the United States.

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