If you’ve never had the distinct pleasure of visiting the region known as North Carolina, you might be forgiven for assuming that it is just another Southern state, populated with backwoods folk and no one to pay any mind to. Officially founded in 1663 via Royal Charter to eight Lords Proprietors under the restored King Charles II (after having been settled and explored at various points in the preceding centuries), this land was properly in the domain of the Injuns — and some particularly fierce ones, no doubt. Occupied by no fewer than thirty-four different tribes, all with competing zones of influence and three varieties of language, the land seemed determined to fight off any attempts by the adventuring Europeans to put a foothold in this tract of untamed wilderness.
Great piece, I’m a Tarheel myself. Just curious, do you do any Civil War reenacting?
Come on out to New Bern on Saturday the 7th if you’re free. It’d be great to see you