Zebulon+Vance

=__//**Zebulon Baird Vance**//__= Was a Confederate military officer in the Americans Civil War, the 27th and 43rd Governer if North Crolina, and U.S. Senator. He was born in Buncombe County, North Carolina, on the 13th of May 1830. As a whig he was elected to the state legislature in 1854. By the time the ordunance of secession had passed in May, Vance was a captian stationed in Raleigh, cmmanding a company known as the "Rough and Ready Guards", part of the Fourtheenth North Carolina Regiment. That August, Vance was elected Colonel of the Twenty-sixth engaged in battle in New Bern in March1862, where Vance