Bartholomew F. Moore
Halifax County, Halifax County, North Carolina
Marker Inscription
Bartholomew F. Moore. Noted lawyer. Attorney general of N.C., 1848-51. Compiled Revised Code in 1854. Opposed secession. Born 7/10 mile west.
Erected by North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
The Story
Bartholomew F. Moore was one of antebellum North Carolina's most respected lawyers, serving as state attorney general from 1848 to 1851 and compiling the state's Revised Code in 1854. A staunch Unionist, he opposed secession as the sectional crisis deepened. He was born about three-quarters of a mile to the west.
Why it matters
Moore is remembered both as a shaper of North Carolina's legal code and as a voice of Union loyalty in a state that ultimately joined the Confederacy.
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