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Points Per Game Assists Per Game Points Allowed Boston College. North Carolina. NC State. Florida State. Virginia Tech. Wake Forest. Notre Dame. Georgia Tech. Jalen Washington. Seth Trimble. William T. Sherman at the end of the Civil War. As a part of his report on North Carolina, Powers described the pine woods of the state and the making of turpentine.

He had been a cavalry sergeant, wore his hat on the side of his head, and had an exceedingly confidential manner. As in this particular case, for a time after the Civil War, the name Tar Heel was derogatory, just as Tar Boilers had been earlier.

In Congress on Feb. At home, however, the name was coming to be accepted with pride. In Pittsboro on Dec. David B. Vance, trying to persuade the government to pay one of his constituents, J. By the end of the century, Tar Heel — at least within the state — had been rehabilitated. Several elements of this exchange are worth noting. The mention of the Tar River would seem to refer to the attack in March discussed earlier.

By about early , it was widely known and no longer seen as disparaging. One anecdote that was widely repeated originated in March , though its circulation was boosted when it was retold in the New Orleans Picayune in November The scene as later described in the newspaper went like this:.

A month earlier at Fredericksburg, a snowball fight between the 1st N. According to the newspaper account,. Earlier, more cursory examinations pinned its origins to white North Carolina soldiers fighting to preserve slavery. That origin suggests, however subtly, that the true Tar Heels were those white soldiers and their descendants , not so much the descendants of those North Carolinians they fought to keep enslaved.

North Carolina in the Civil War was a divided land, and not all North Carolinians, even white ones, supported the Confederacy. Bruce E. Baker, illustrations by JP Trostle. During the course of the Civil War North Carolinians came to embrace the term with pride. Within the United States, 'tar' developed more specifically racial connotations. Democrats will now discover that there are some decent people among the Whigs, and vice versa.

A Whig lady can now lend her Democratic neighbor her coffee-mill, and in turn, borrow an egg to put in her pan-cakes. Lee reportedly cried out, "Thank God for the Tar Heel boys. While no source directly proves such an utterance, Lee did write a letter to Vance praising the conduct of the North Carolina troops at Reams Station.

The first known postwar printed use of the term was in sheet music published in Baltimore in by William C. Miller, entitled "Wearin' of the Grey," written by "Tar Heel. The University of North Carolina football team changed its name from the White Phantoms to the Tar Heels in the s, and all of the university's sports teams came to bear the moniker.

The term-often erroneously rendered as one word, "tarheel"-is the standard nickname for North Carolina and North Carolinians alike. It is also commonly used throughout the state in the names of many businesses, services, and organizations. Michael W. Yes, as a born and raised Tarheel. I can attest to the fact that half of us are still stuck like tar to an ideal that the Civil War was somehow an honorable cause for the South, despite the overwhelming sentiment and evidence to the contrary.

Denial is the one statue that will never be removed entirely from the Tarheel State. A wall to hide our shame? Absolutely ridiculous I'VE been a Tar Heel my entire 56 year life I can truly say that if Carolina changes their name that I will no longer support the UNC athletics and as far as I'm concerned any other sports venue The quote from Governor Vance attributed to a letter from Pvt.