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 Carolina v. North Carolina wrote, "and is properly pressed or defended by the State." Later in 2010, North Carolina and South Carolina agreed on an out-of-court settlement that allowed transfers of water from the Catawba River. The concessions granted South Carolina were enough for the state to agree to keep the ultimate resolution of the matter out of the Supreme Court. The agreement placed no definite limits on North Carolina's withdrawals from the river, but required continuing consultation with its southern neighbor. South Carolina v. North Carolina South Carolina v. North Carolina, 558 U.S. 256 (2010), is a case in which the Supreme Court