VANCE, ZEBULON BAIRD

1830–94, American political leader, Confederate governor of North Carolina (1862–65) in the Civil War, b. Buncombe co., N.C. A lawyer and a Whig, he served in the state legislature (1854) and in Congress (1858–61). Opposed to secession until President Lincoln's call for troops, he promptly urged support of the Confederacy. He distinguished himself in the Seven Days battles (June–July, 1862) before assuming the governorship. Vance was loyal to the Southern cause, but for him the interests of North Carolina superseded those of the Confederate government of Richmond. After the war he was arrested but soon released. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1870, he was denied his seat. In 1876 he was again elected governor, but resigned in 1878 to enter the Senate, where he was an important figure and a popular orator until his death.

See biographies by F. R. Shirley (1963) and G. Tucker (1966).

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Zeb Vance: North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader
Book by Gordon B. Mckinney; University of North Carolina Press, 2004
Subjects: Governors--North Carolina--Biography, Legislators--United States--Biography, North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865, North Carolina--Politics And Government--1861-1865, North Carolina--Politics And Government--1865-1950, United States--Congress--Senate--Biography, Vance, Zebulon Baird--1830-1894
...Weaver, September 24, I85I, The Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance, vol. 1, 1843-1862, ed. Frontis W...Newell Espy, May 13, 1853, My Beloved Zebulon: The Cor- respondence of Zebulon Baird Vance and Harriett Newell Espy, ed. Elizabeth...
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Oratory and Rhetoric in the Nineteenth-Century South: A Rhetoric of Defense
Book by W. Stuart Towns; Praeger, 1998
Subjects: English Language--19th Century--Rhetoric, English Language--Southern States--Rhetoric, Oratory--Southern States--History--19th Century, Speeches, Addresses, Etc., American--Southern States--History And Criticism
...biographical sketch is from R. D.W. Connor, "Vance, Zebulon Baird," in Dictionary of American Biography...University: University of Alabama Press, 1965. Zebulon Baird Vance Shirley Franklin R. Zebulon Vance, Tarheel Spokesman . Charlotte, NC...
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The South in the Building of the Nation
Book by J. A. C. Chandler, Franklin L. Riley, James Curtis Ballagh, John Bell Henneman, Edwin Mims, Thomas E. Watson, Samuel Chiles Mitchell, Walter L. Fleming, J. Walker McSpadden; Southern Historical Publication Society, 1909
Subjects: American Literature--Southern States, Southern States--Biography, Southern States--Economic Conditions, Southern States--History
...Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. VANCE, MRS. ADA REEDY, poet: b...During the war she married Mr. Vance, of Kentucky. While in her teens...Sisters , an allegorical lyric. VANCE, ZEBULON BAIRD, soldier and politician: b...
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Tar Heel Editor
Book by Josephus Daniels; The University of North Carolina Press, 1939
Subjects: Journalism--North Carolina, Journalists--Correspondence, Reminiscences, Etc
...Carolinians at, 465 f. Uzzell, E. M., 353 VANCE, Life of , by Dowd, 450 Vance, Zebulon Baird, responds to toast on "Our Mountains...176 , 179 , 198 , 200 , 254 , 261 , 282 , 386 Vance County, 448 Vanderbilt, Alfred Gwynne, 254...
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U. S. One, Maine to Florida
Book; Modern Age Books, 1938
Subjects: Atlantic States--Guidebooks, Automobile Travel--Atlantic States--Guidebooks, United States Highway 1
...of Maryland 179 Updike House 76 Upper Matccumbe Key 289 Varina 301 Vass, N. C 225 Valley Forge 117 Vance High School 217 Vance, Zebulon Baird 214 , 217 Van Horns Tavern 176 Varnurn House 68 Varnurn Memorial Armory 68 Vaucluse, S. C. 238 Vero...
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Layers of Loyalty: Confederate Nationalism and Amnesty Letters from Western North Carolina
Journal article by Gordon B. Mckinney; Civil War History, Vol. 51, 2005
...Mobley, ed., The Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance, vol. 2, 1863 (Raleigh: North...1998), 142-50. (12.) See Vance to Edward J. Hale, Nov. 9, 1863, in Mobley, Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance, 318-19; C. J. Cowles to...
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Adlai E. Stevenson and Southern Politics in 1892
Journal article by Leonard Schlup; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 47, 1993
Subjects: Democratic Party--Southern States, Southern States--History, Stevenson, Adlai E.--Political activity, Vice-presidents--Political activity
...525-535; and Fred Emory Haynes, James Baird Weaver (Iowa City: State Historical Society...of North Carolina. Also J. A. Fisher to Zebulon B. Vance, March 21, 1892, Zebulon B. Vance Papers, Southern Historical Collection, University...


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The Scots in Carolina
Magazine article by R.D. Kernohan; Contemporary Review, Vol. 263, October 1993
Subjects: North Carolina--Origin, Scottish Americans--North Carolina
...Presbyterians who headed for the mountains generally got there well ahead of their kirk. North Carolinas Civil War Governor Zebulon Baird Vance (of Scots and Ulster Presbyterian stock), was an exception, and his birthplace has Scots-style Communion...
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Congress Reconsiders Statute on Statues
Magazine article by Sean Scully; Insight on the News, Vol. 15, May 24, 1999
Subjects: Kansas--Politics and government, Statues--Political aspects
...Livingston, signer of the Declaration of Independence. * North Carolina: Charles Brantley Aycock, governor; Zebulon Baird Vance, governor and U.S. senator. * North Dakota: John Burke, governor and U.S. treasurer. * Ohio: William...


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Kansas Getting Ready to Swap Statues in Capitol: Critics Concerned That Large Exodus Could Follow
Newspaper article by Sean Scully; The Washington Times, April 17, 1999
...Livingston, signer of the Declaration of Independence. North Carolina: Charles Brantley Aycock, governor. Zebulon Baird Vance, governor and U.S. senator. North Dakota: John Burke, governor and U.S. treasurer. Ohio: William Allen...


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Vance, Zebulon Baird
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VANCE, ZEBULON BAIRD 1830 94, American political leader, Confederate governor of North Carolina...Days battles (June July, 1862) before assuming the governorship. Vance was loyal to the Southern cause, but for him the interests of North...


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