Some North Carolina Facts About the War

From the Encyclopedia of North Carolina.

**  Some 14,000 troops from the state served in the war, nearly half of them conscripted.

**  Forsyth County, formed in 1849, got its name from Col. Benjamin Forsyth, a state legislator who fought and died in the War of 1812.

**  The War of 1812 was the main impetus for the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in New England, but lack of large sums of capital  needed to start it in North Carolina and other Southern states meant they continued with agrarian efforts.

During the war, cannonballs cast in John Fulenwider's Lincoln County High Shoals Iron Works were shipped by flatboats to Charleston.

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