Lincoln's possible N.C. connections topic of UDC lecture series
Published 12:00 am Tuesday, October 2, 2012
History professor Richard Eller, co-author of the 2003 book, “The Tarheel Lincoln,” spoke Saturday in Hickory.
Eller spoke on, “Was Abe Lincoln Actually a Native of North Carolina?”
Eller’s lecture was the 14th free public lecture sponsored by the N.C. Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Sesquicentennial Committee. It was held in the main auditorium of Catawba Valley Community College.
Eller gave details of the investigation of the connection between Wesley Enloe, Nancy Hanks and Lincoln. During the question-and-answer period, a Lincoln County (N.C.) native traced her connection to Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln.
Eller, a native of North Carolina, received his master’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He serves as chairman of the Social Science Department at CVCC. He has worked as a radio and television news broadcaster and has written and produced documentaries on regional history.
The N.C. Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Sesquicentennial Committee is sponsoring Civil War lectures throughout the state’s eight UDC districts each year of the sesquicentennial.
Lectures have been given in Salisbury, Greensboro, Asheboro, Charlotte, Durham, Carolina Beach, Statesville, Wentworth, Rocky Mount, Fayetteville, Franklin, Pinehurst, Butner and Hickory.
Speakers have included history professors, authors, historians, and an archaeologist who have focused on the war years in specific locations or periods, diseases, shortages, religion, politics, important people, invasion and archaeological research.
For information about future lectures visit the N.C. Division website at www.ncudc.org or contact Sesquicentennial Committee Chairman Sue Curtis of Salisbury at southpaws@fibrant.com.