North Carolina the last shots of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the Civil War. For many years, North Carolinians proudly boasted that they had been "First at Bethel, Farthest at Gettysburg and Chickamauga, and Last at Appomattox." North Carolina is bordered by South Carolina on the south, Georgia on the southwest, Tennessee on the west, Virginia on the north, and the Atlantic Ocean on the east. The United States Census Bureau places North Carolina in the South Atlantic division of the southern region. North Carolina consists of three main geographic regions: the Atlantic coastal plain, occupying the eastern portion of
South Rosemary, North Carolina South Rosemary, North Carolina South Rosemary is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Halifax County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 2,836 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area. South Rosemary is located in northern Halifax County at (36.445834, -77.700876). It is bordered to the east by the city of Roanoke Rapids. U.S. Route 158 is the main road through the community, leading east into Roanoke Rapids and west to Henderson. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which