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 downstream in South Carolina. South Carolina Attorney General, Henry McMaster, filed suit against North Carolina in 2007 under the Supreme Court's original jurisdiction over suits between two states. The Court appointed Kristin Linsley as the special master to review the evidence and determine the equitable apportionment of the river's water. Linsley, a San Francisco litigation partner and former law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia, was the first woman appointed by the Supreme Court to serve in that role. Three other parties affected by the dispute sought to intervene: the city of Charlotte, North Carolina; the Duke Energy Corporation, which operates