Zebulon Vance

Zebulon Baird Vance (May 13, 1830 – April 14, 1894) was a Confederate military officer in the American Civil War, the 37th and 43rd Governor of North Carolina, and U.S. Senator. A prodigious writer, Vance became one of the most influential Southern leaders of the Civil War and postbellum periods.

Zebulon Vance of The Guns of the South
Governor Vance of North Carolina enforced President Lee's Proclamation Suspending Habeas Corpus In North Carolina in March 1868, by recalling the 47th Infantry to enforce martial law in Nash County, and suppress the Rivington Men's insurrection.