North Carolina Civil War Trails
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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1GUQ_carson-house_Marion-NC.html
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On March 24, 1865, Union Gen. George Stoneman led 6,000 cavalrymen from Tennessee into southwestern Virginia and western North Carolina to disrupt the Confederate supply line by destroying sections of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, the Nort…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1GV3_burnsville_Burnsville-NC.html
Burnsville exemplified western North Carolinians? divided loyalties. Yancey County was evenly split on the secession issue. In January 1861, secession advocates in the town square burned an effigy of Cong. Zebulon B. Vance, who advised caution in response t…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1GVQ_cranberry-iron-mine_Elk-Park-NC.html
During the Civil War, natural resources such as salt, lead, and iron were highly prized commodities in the Confederacy. The government relied especially on small rural ironworks to manufacture cannons, swords, and firearms. Ruben White first mined iron ore …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1GW2_a-woman-of-war_Newland-NC.html
Sarah Malinda Blalock and her husband, William McKesson "Keith" Blalock, lived in Coffey Gap on the Watauga and Caldwell County line in 1860. Keith Blalock was an avowed Unionist, but with the passage of the first Confederate conscription act immi…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1GX7_banner-elk_Banner-Elk-NC.html
In 1860 Banner Elk was a small community in the mountains of Watauga County (present-day Avery County). Then called Banner Elk, it was named for the local Banner family and the Elk River. During the last years of the Civil War, an organized system of safe h…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1GXX_patterson-mill_Lenoir-NC.html
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On March 24, 1865, Union Gen. George Stoneman led 6,000 cavalrymen from Tennessee into southwestern Virginia and western North Carolina to disrupt the Confederate supply line by destroying sections of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, the North…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1GY2_raiders-in-lenoir_Lenoir-NC.html
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On March 24, 1865, Union Gen. George Stoneman led 6,000 cavalrymen from Tennessee into southwestern Virginia and western North Carolina to disrupt the Confederate supply line by destroying sections of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, the North…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1H0W_moody-tavern_Danbury-NC.html
Early in April 1865, Union Gen. George Stoneman cavalry moved from Tennessee into Virginia and then south through Danbury to destroy railroad track, warehouses, and supplies that supported Gen. Robert E. Lee Army of Northern Virginia. Stoneman led 4,000-5,0…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1H1G_pine-grove-camp_Lexington-NC.html
For an hour on the evening of Easter Sunday, April 16, 1865, a pine grove outside Lexington became the de facto seat of government for the Confederate States of America and the state of North Carolina. President Jefferson Davis and his cabinet, together wit…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1H1K_morrisville-engagement_Morrisville-NC.html
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The Carolina Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the March to the Sea. Sherman objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia to crush Gen. Robert E. Lee…