Emeline pigott biography of michael

Secrets, Supplies, and a Big Skirt* 

By The History Place in Morehead City

Here’s a North Carolina story that you might not know.

It includes combs, pins, two pairs of men’s pants, a shirt, five pounds of sugar and some army boots — a total of about thirty pounds of supplies, all found hidden in a woman’s skirt. The woman was Emeline Pigott, and her story is one of courage, strength and love.

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Why did she have so many things in her skirt? What made this country girl become so well known?

Pigott was born December 15, 1836, in the Harlowe area of Carteret County. She moved with her family to a farm on Calico Creek, in what is now part of Morehead City, when she was about twenty-five years old.

This was her home when Confederate soldiers arrived in the area to defend coastal North Carolina from the Union army during the Civil War. The Pigotts did what they could to help the South’s cause. Emeline nursed the sick and wounded.

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