TARBORO — The North Carolina Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Sesquicentennial Committee is sponsoring lectures throughout the state during each year of the observance. The War Between the States Sesquicentennial Lecture Series began on May 20, 2011, which was the date North Carolina left the Union in 1861 under Gov. John W. Ellis. The lectures are free and open to the public.
On Saturday, July 28, a lecture on North Carolina war governor Henry T. Clark will be held in Rocky Mount at the Braswell Memorial Library, 727 North Grace St. The lecture will begin at 1:30 p.m. and the speaker will be R. Matthew Poteat, an assistant professor of history at Central Virginia Community College in Lynchburg.
Poteat has written articles and reviews for a variety of scholarly journals and online publications and is the author of Henry Toole Clark: Civil War Governor of North Carolina. He is a native of Lenior County and holds degrees from both East Carolina University and North Carolina State University. He is currently writing his doctoral dissertation — a study of the Confederate governors — for the University of London, Birkbeck.
Henry Toole Clark was born in Tarboro in 1808
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