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
North and South Carolina Railway North and South Carolina Railway The North and South Carolina Railway was a Southeastern railroad that operated in the Carolinas in the early part of the 20th century. The North and South Carolina Railway Company (of South Carolina) was chartered by the South Carolina General Assembly in 1908. In 1911, the North and South Carolina Railway Company (of South Carolina) and the North and South Carolina Railway Company (of North Carolina) were consolidated. The North and South Carolina Railway ran from Gibson, North Carolina, to a connection with the Georgetown and Western Railway at the Pee Dee River, with less