Singly Linked List, Loading An array

I wrote this class and struct to create a singly linked list. The data is stored in a binary file that I've opened and read, but I am unsure of the syntax to load the info into the classtype array I've created. Lines 119-124 is where I'm attempting to store the information into the array. The errors I'm getting are "Incompatible types in assignment of 'Statehood Info' to char[3].

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class StatehoodInfo
{
    public:
        char Order[3];
        char StateName[15];
        char StateAbbrev[3];
        char DateOfEntry[11];
    public:

        StatehoodInfo()
        {
            strncpy(Order,"00",3);
            strncpy(StateName,"Unknown",15);
            strncpy(StateAbbrev,"00",3);
            strncpy(DateOfEntry,"Unknown",11);

        }

        StatehoodInfo(char * o,char * SName, char * SAbbrev, char * Date)
        {
            strncpy(Order,o,3);
            strncpy(StateName,SName,15);
            strncpy(StateAbbrev,SAbbrev,3);
            strncpy(DateOfEntry,Date,11);

        }

        StatehoodInfo(StatehoodInfo&  rhs)
        {
            strncpy(this->Order,rhs.Order,3);
            strncpy(this->StateName,rhs.StateName,15);
            strncpy(this->StateAbbrev,rhs.StateAbbrev,3);
            strncpy(this->DateOfEntry,rhs.DateOfEntry,11);

        }

        ~StatehoodInfo()
        {

        }

        char * getorder(void) { return Order; }
        void setorder(char * o)
        {
            strncpy(Order,o,3);
            return;
        }
        char * getstateName(void) { return StateName; }
        void setstateName(char * SName)
        {
            strncpy(StateName,SName,15);
            return;
        }
        char * getstateAbbrev(void) { return StateAbbrev; }
        void setstateAbbrev(char * SAbbrev)
        {
            strncpy(StateAbbrev,SAbbrev,3);
            return;
        }
        char * getdate(void) { return DateOfEntry; }
        void setdate(char * Date)
        {
            strncpy(DateOfEntry,Date,11);
            return;
        }

        void ShowStateInfo(ostream& target)
        {
            target << "State: " << Order << setw(5) << StateName << setw(5)
                   << StateAbbrev << setw(5) <<" was admitted on " << DateOfEntry<<endl;
            return;
        }
};

template <typename T>
struct ListNode
{
    T thePayload;

    ListNode * theLink;
};
void AppendNode(ListNode<StatehoodInfo> * ,ListNode<StatehoodInfo> * );
int main()
{
    const int MAXSIZE = 51;
    StatehoodInfo States[MAXSIZE];
    int sub = 0;
    fstream BinIn;

    ListNode<StatehoodInfo> * headPtr = NULL;
	ListNode<StatehoodInfo> * currentNodePtr;
	ListNode<StatehoodInfo> * newNodePtr;
	ListNode<StatehoodInfo> * previousNodePtr;

    BinIn.open(".\\Datafiles\\USA-Statehood-Info-LAB-10-Spring-2014.bin",ios::in|ios::binary);
    if(BinIn.fail())
    {
        cout<<"Unable to Process\n";
        return 999;
    }
    while(BinIn.eof() == false)
    {
        BinIn.read(reinterpret_cast<char *>(&States[sub]),sizeof(StatehoodInfo));
        sub++;
    }
    int maxElements = sub;
    int index;
    while(index < maxElements) //reading file
	{
		//Declare a new ListNode object
		newNodePtr = new ListNode<StatehoodInfo>;	//Create a instance of the Node object on heap
		if(newNodePtr->theLink == NULL)
		{
			cout << "\nUnable to create the Node object on heap.\n";
			return 999;
		}

		/*newNodePtr->thePayload.Order = States[index];
		newNodePtr->thePayload.StateName = States[index];
		newNodePtr->thePayload.StateAbbrev = States[index];
		newNodePtr->thePayload.DateOfEntry = States[index];*/
		newNodePtr->theLink = NULL;	//ListNode object's link member set to NULL

		if(headPtr == NULL)
		{
			//List is empty
			headPtr = newNodePtr;			//assign the ADDRESS of new Node object to headPtr ptr
			currentNodePtr = newNodePtr;	//ditto for currentNodePtr pointer
		}
		else
		{
			//List has at least one ListNode. APPEND the new ListNode to the END OF THE LIST
            cout << "\nAPPEND a NODE.\n\n";
			AppendNode(headPtr,newNodePtr);
		}
		States[index].ShowStateInfo(cout);
        index++;	//Get next payload value for another ListNode
	} //End List create loop

	
	system("CLS");
	//Traversal
	currentNodePtr = headPtr;		//Store the entry address into currentNodePtr ptr (to protect contents of headPtr ptr)

	while(currentNodePtr != NULL)
	{
		States[index].ShowStateInfo(cout);

		currentNodePtr = currentNodePtr->theLink;	//'point' to NEXT Node
	}
}
void AppendNode(ListNode<StatehoodInfo> * theHeadPtr,ListNode<StatehoodInfo> * theNewNode)
{
    //APPEND a new Node to the END of the List

    ListNode<StatehoodInfo> * currentNodePtr = theHeadPtr;
    ListNode<StatehoodInfo> * previousNodePtr;

	//Find the 'end' of the current List
	while(currentNodePtr != NULL)
	{
		previousNodePtr = currentNodePtr;	//Save address of the NODE PRECEDING the current Node
		currentNodePtr = currentNodePtr->theLink;
	}
	//AT END of present List..'previousNodePtr' is address of former 'last' ListNode object

	theNewNode->theLink = currentNodePtr;	//New Node is now the FINAL (LAST) Node with link == NULL
	previousNodePtr->theLink = theNewNode;	//Store address of the new ListNode object in the link member
                                            //of the previous ListNode objct
    return;
}
Line 109: index is uninitialized. You're going to be comparing garbage.

Lines 119-122: You can't assign C-style strings this way. Use strncpy or std::string.
Thank you!
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