Also there was a peculiarly tragic Civil War memento, consisting of a note which was found clasped in the dead hand of Colonel Isaac Avery, of the 6th North Carolina Regiment, who was killed while commanding a brigade on the second day at Gettysburg.
_Tell my father I died with my face to the enemy._ These words were written by the fallen officer with his left hand, his right arm having been rendered useless by his mortal wound.

For ink he used his own life blood.
Also in the museum may be seen the chart-book of Blackbeard, the pirate, who, one of the curators of the museum informed me, was the same person as Edward Teach.

Blackbeard, who is commemorated in the name of Blackbeard's Island, off the coast of South Georgia, met his fate when he encountered a cruiser fitted out by Governor Spotswood of Virginia and commanded by Lieutenant Maynard.

Maynard found Blackbeard's ship at Okracoke Inlet, on the North Carolina coast.

Before he and his men could board the pirate vessel the pirates came and boarded them.