NC monument at Gettysburg.

[Stony]

 

[Delhi Rangers]

A beautiful monument. One of my favorites at Gettysburg.

 

[Mike Serpa]

Thanks for sharing this photo. I've never visited any civil war sites, so I appreciate it.

 

[Union_Buff]

Amazing photo Stony; I saw the NC monument when I went on a tour of Gettysburg in April 2010.

 

[theoldman]

I lived in NC for almost 18 years before moving north to be close to elderly parents. I love the state and the OBX is my favorite vacation spot. The term Tar Heel" is an interesting term. During my time living in NC, I remember being told the term had to do with the NC in the CW and the name "Tar Heel" was given to the NC soldiers by General Robert E. Lee. I have no idea if the story is factual, but I like it. A quick search this morning found the same information here.

 

[Cumpston1862]

I have always liked the North Carolina monument at Gettysburg. It captures the imagination of the desperate moments of forming up for Pickett's Charge on that July 3rd day.

 

[James N.]

I lived in NC for almost 18 years before moving north to be close to elderly parents. I love the state and the OBX is my favorite vacation spot. The term Tar Heel" is an interesting term. During my time living in NC, I remember being told the term had to do with the NC in the CW and the name "Tar Heel" was given to the NC soldiers by General Robert E. Lee. I have no idea if the story is factual, but I like it. A quick search this morning found the same information here.

The term "tar heel" well pre-dates the Civil War, I think into colonial times when North Carolina's abundent pine forests provided pitch for the caulking of British and American naval and commercial vessels. The pitch-pine when burned yielded a dark sticky tar-like sap known as pitch. Since the area had no industry and mainly subsistance farming this pitch was what it first became known for, and the inhabitants "tar heels" since so many supplemented their incomes and living this way.

 

[CSA Today]

I lived in NC for almost 18 years before moving north to be close to elderly parents. I love the state and the OBX is my favorite vacation spot. The term Tar Heel" is an interesting term. During my time living in NC, I remember being told the term had to do with the NC in the CW and the name "Tar Heel" was given to the NC soldiers by General Robert E. Lee. I have no idea if the story is factual, but I like it. A quick search this morning found the same information here.

The name was pretty much a pejorative until the WBTSs. North Carolinians considered themselves a "vale of humility between two mountains of conceit" – their more aristocratic neighbours of Virginia and South Carolina.

The earliest date for "Tar Heel" may be one dating from colonial days. North Carolinians, from the northeastern part of the colony, would go to the southeastern part of Virginia to sell tobacco taking a few slaves along with them to help. It seems the slaves had a game they would play when not busy with the tobacco. There was a circle drawn something, like the one for the game of marbles, small coins were placed in the center and each player would then take turns jumping in barefooted and try to jump out with coins caught between their toes – the player could keep all coins he managed to get out of the circle without dropping. Suspicion arose among Virginia players when the North Carolinians appeared overly successful at the game. On examination, the Virginians discovered that the North Carolinians had tar smeared between their toes.

 

[Mosin]

A nice touch on Borglums part during the dedication was his personal arrangment of having a plane fly over at the moment of the unveiling and scattering roses over the battlefield.

http://www.gdg.org/Research/Monuments/ncmon.html