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Information or Welcome Center
421
Siloam
74
Banner
Elk
Rockford
Boone
421
Cranberry
Iron Mine
T E N N E S S E E
Blalock
Family
Richmond Hill
Jonesville
Fort
Hamby
Wilkesboro
Bond School
House
601
Yadkinville
421
321
General George Stoneman
Windsor
Crossroads
Patterson Mill
Raiding
Huntsville
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40
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SmithMcDowell
House
16
70
70
40
21
ASHE VI L L E
Salisbury
(Multiple Sites)
64
Old Fort
(Swannanoa Gap)
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221
Chimney Rock Village
(Hickory Nut Gorge)
Lincolnton
74A
Allison-Deaver
House
52
16
85
276
Cottage
Home
St. John’s
Church
Concord
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26
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Rutherfordton
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C A R O L I N A
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1861
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401
Clayton
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Mitchener
Station
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301
Smithfield
U.S. Line
of March
General William T. Sherman
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501
15
Averasboro
Battlefield Museum
C.S. 3rd Line
Civil War Trails Site
Old Bluff
Church
1
Carolinas Campaign Driving Route
Hastings 70
To
House
Kinston
Hannah’s Creek
Village of
C.S. Line
Bentonville
of March
301
Merging of
Dunn Route to
the Armies
Bentonville
Bentonville
117
Battlefield
Departing
Averasboro
401
13
Information or Welcome Center
40
295
FAYETTEVILLE
(Multiple Sites)
501
401
301
15
Murdoch
Morrison
Gun
Factory
Wagram
Bethel
Church
Laurel Hill Church
Cheraw
Laurel
Hill
401
117
95
Laurinburg
Stewart-HawleyMalloy House
General Joseph E. Johnston
1862
October 21 Battle of Ball’s Bluff, Va.
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June 10–July 14 Gettysburg Campaign, Va., Md., Pa.
July 1–3 Battle of Gettysburg, Pa.
July 18–23 Potter’s Raid, N.C.
October 14 Battle of Bristoe Station, Va.
THE EASTERN CAMPAIGNS
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WAR WITHIN THE WAR
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1864
158
95
Point Harbor
Fort
Branch
Rocky Mount
Edenton
(Battle of Albemarle Sound)
17
64
Tarboro
(Multiple Sites)
Wilson
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Princeville
Falkland
301
Farmville
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Ayden
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117
Scuffleton
Bridge
Washington
(Multiple Sites)
Black
Jack
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St. John’s
Kinston Church
(Multiple Sites)
General John G. Foster
Wyse Fork
Union Attack 70
at Southwest Creek
Engagement
at Whitehall
Mount
Olive
Tranters
Creek
Greenville
Goldsboro 13
(Multiple Sites)
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Roanoke
Island
Festival
Park
Plymouth
(Multiple Sites)
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Grimsley
Church
Freedmen’s
Colony
Williamston
(Asa Biggs House)
Confederate
Military
Hospital No. 2
Hatteras
(Graveyard
of the Atlantic
Museum)
New Bern
(Multiple Sites)
258
Warsaw
Kenansville
Confederate
States Armory
40
17
70
Jacksonville
(Cushing’s New
River Raid)
Bogue Sound
Block House
17
To
Wilmington
Huggins Island Battery
at Hammocks Beach SP
Newport
Barracks
Carolina City
Beaufort
Hoop Pole Fort Macon
Creek State Park
Civil War Trails Site
Information or Welcome Center
The Market House, Fayetteville Photo: John S. Salmon
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U.S. rifled cannon battery firing on Fort Macon on April 25,
1862, Union batteries and gunboats bombarded Fort Macon
for eleven hours. The Confederates ran up the white flag at
4:30 p.m., and formally surrendered the following morning.
the generals marched north and bested Gen.
John Pope’s force at the Second Battle of Manassas in August. Lee then invaded western Maryland to rally support, supply his army, and gain
foreign recognition for the Confederacy. His
hopes were dashed at Antietam Creek on September 17, 1862, the bloodiest day in American
history, and he retreated to Virginia.
President Abraham Lincoln soon issued the
Emancipation Proclamation, making the conflict
a war for freedom as well as for the preservation
of the Union. Freedmen and escaped slaves
throughout the East flocked to the Union colors
and joined regiments of United States Colored
Troops (USCTs).
In 1863, after Lee’s victory at Chancellorsville in May and the death of Jackson, Lee
marched north again through Maryland and
into Pennsylvania. When he confronted Union
Gen. George G. Meade’s army at Gettysburg, the
Confederate tide was turned back again. North
Carolinians, meanwhile, experienced both conventional and unconventional warfare. Near the
coast, Federal expeditions disrupted Confederate supply lines, temporarily disabled railroads,
and destroyed manufacturing centers. In the
western mountains, neighbor fought neighbor
as Unionists and Confederates conducted a
bloody “war within a war.”
Union commander-in-chief Gen. Ulysses S.
Grant launched simultaneous attacks in the
spring of 1864 against the Confederates
throughout the South. He accompanied Meade’s
army in Virginia during the Overland Campaign, maneuvered Lee ever closer to Richmond,
and finally besieged him there and at Petersburg. A succession of Federal commanders
pressed Confederate forces in the Shenandoah
Valley and laid waste to the “Breadbasket of the
Confederacy.” Gen. Philip H. Sheridan eventually swept the Shenandoah clear of Confederates
under Gen. Jubal A. Early. In southwestern Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and western North
Carolina, Union cavalry raided salt works and
railroads. Gen. William T. Sherman, in the Deep
ecession and war divided western
North Carolinians, and neighbors and families quickly came to
blows as angry words gave way to
fists and guns. Confederate conscription
acts fostered resistance, the mountains
sheltered deserters from both sides,
and armed bands brutally settled scores.
Western North Carolina and East Tennessee also produced two notable leaders, one Confederate and one Unionist.
Confederate Col. William H.
Thomas of North Carolina, the only
white man to serve as a Cherokee chief,
had helped establish the Qualla Boundary (Eastern Band of Cherokee reservation) north of Franklin. He organized
Thomas’s Legion of Cherokee Indians
and Mountaineers in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1862, with 400 Cherokee in
two of his companies. It fought in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia and
largely prevented the Federal occupation of western North Carolina.
In 1864, Maj. George W. Kirk, a
Unionist native of Greeneville in East
Tennessee, organized the 3rd North
Carolina Mounted Infantry (U.S.). He
recruited men and boys from western
North Carolina, especially in nearby
Madison County, as well as in East Tennessee. Kirk and his men became
famous, or infamous, for their raids on
Confederate sympathizers and training
camps in western North Carolina.
September 29 Battle of Chaffin’s Farm and
New Market Heights, Va.
1865
June 22–30 Wilson-Kautz Raid, Va.
THE CIVIL WAR REVISITED
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April 9 Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House, Va.
April 10 Last Confederate Cabinet Meeting, Danville, Va.
April 14 John Wilkes Booth assassinates President Abraham Lincoln, flees through Southern Maryland
April 26 Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrenders near Durham, N.C.
April 26 John Wilkes Booth killed near Port Royal, Va.
May 2–October 19 Shenandoah Valley Campaigns, Va.
September 19 Third Battle of Winchester, Va.
October 19 Battle of Cedar Creek, Va.
October 27 Cushing Torpedoes CSS Albermarle, N.C.
May 15 Battle of New Market, Va.
May 26–June 21 Hunter’s Raid, Va.
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“James Bennett’s House, Where Johnston Surrendered,”
Harper’s Weekly
South, first captured Atlanta and then
marched to the sea, occupying Savannah.
The Carolinas, South and North, felt
the weight of Sherman’s boot early in 1865.
Fort Fisher, the “Gibraltar of the South”
that protected the blockade-running capital of Wilmington, N.C., fell in mid-January,
cutting the supply lifeline to Lee in Virginia. Grant, meanwhile, forced Lee’s lines
westward around Petersburg until they
finally broke at Five Forks on April 1, a
week and a half after Sherman almost
crushed Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s army at Bentonville, North Carolina.
Lee evacuated Petersburg and Richmond
and marched his dwindling army west, hoping to turn south and join Johnston. Grant
blocked his way, however, and cornered
him at Appomattox Court House, where Lee
surrendered on April 9. The Confederate
government fled south through North Carolina. In Washington, John Wilkes Booth
assassinated Lincoln on April 14 at Ford’s
Theater, then fled through southeastern
Maryland to Virginia, where he was shot
and killed on April 26. On that same day, at
Bennett Place near Raleigh, North Carolina, Johnston surrendered to Sherman,
essentially ending the Civil War.
Cherokee veterans of Thomas’s Legion at the
1903 Confederate Reunion in New Orleans.
The following further explore and
expand upon the story of the Civil War:
Washington TDA
800-999-3857
www.originalwashington.com
Franklin Co. C. of C.
919-496-3056
www.franklin-chamber.org
North Carolina Division
of Tourism, Film & Sports
Development
4324 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-4324
800-VISITNC
www.visitnc.com
Elizabeth City CVB
866-324-8948
www.discoverec.org
Windsor/Bertie Co. C. of C.
252-794-4277
www.windsorbertiechamber.com
Greater Goldsboro T & T
919-734-2245
www.greatergoldsboro.com
Greene County C. of C.
252-747-8090
www.greenechamber.com
PIEDMONT REGION
North Carolina Office of
Archives and History
919-807-7280
www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us
North Carolina
Historic Sites
919-733-7862
www.nchistoricsites.org
Civil War Preservation Trust
888-606-1400
www.civilwar.org
COASTAL REGION
Brunswick County
800-795-7263
www.ncbrunswick.com
Cape Fear Coast CVB
877-945-6386
www.explorecapefearcoast.com
Chowan County TDA
800-775-0111
www.visitedenton.com
Crystal Coast TA
800-786-6962
www.sunnync.com
Greenville-Pitt County CVB
800-537-5564
www.visitgreenvillenc.com
Kinston-Lenoir County CVB
800-869-0032
www.visitkinston.com
Martin County TTA
800-776-8566
www.visitmartincounty.com
New Bern/Craven County CVB
800-437-5767
www.visitnewbern.com
Onslow County Tourism
800-932-2144
www.onslowcountytourism.com
Pender Co. TD
888-576-4756
www.visitpender.com
Perquimans County C. of C.
252-426-5657
www.perquimans.com
Washington County T & T
252-793-3248
www.visitwashington
countync.com
Averasboro Battlefield
& Museum
910-891-5019
www.averasboro.com
Bentonville Battlefield
910-594-0789
www.bentonvillebattlefield.
nchistoricsites.org
★
★
★
Halifax County TDA
800-522-4282
www.visithalifax.com
Burlington/Alamance Co. CVB
800-637-3804
www.burlington-area-nc.org
Laurinburg/Scotland County
Area C. of C.
910-276-7420
www.laurinburgchamber.com
Davidson Co. Historical Museum
336-242-2035
www.visitdavidsoncounty.com
Lexington TA
866-604-2389
www.visitlexingtonnc.com
Davie Co. C of C.
336-751-3304
www.daviecounty.com
Lincolnton-Lincoln County C. of C.
704-735-3096
www.lincolnchambernc.org
Durham CVB
800-446-8604
www.durham-nc.com
Northampton County C. of C.
252-534-1383
www.northamptonchamber.org
Edgecombe ARTS
252-823-4159
www.edgecombearts.org
Orange County Visitors Center
919-732-7741
www.historichillsborough.org
Fayetteville Area CVB
800-255-8217
www.visitfayettevillenc.com
Rockingham County TDA
800-316-7625
www.ncnorthstar.com
Currituck C. of C. and
Visitors Center
252-453-9497
www.currituckchamber.com
Dismal Swamp Canal
Welcome Center
252-771-8333
www.dismalswamp.com
Duplin County TDC
910-296-2181
www.duplintourism.org
Greater Raleigh CVB
800-849-8499
www.visitraleigh.com
Johnston County Visitors Bureau
800-441-7829
www.johnstoncountync.org
Fort Macon, in Carteret Co., surrendered to Union forces
on April 26, 1862.
orth Carolina’s factories supplied Confederate armies with shoes, clothing,
weapons, and other necessities during the
war. In addition, ships loaded with European goods ran the Union blockade of the
Southern coastline to such ports as Wilmington, North Carolina, guarded by Fort
Fisher. A network of rail lines, especially
the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad and
the Petersburg Railroad (also called the
Weldon Railroad), transported supplies to
Gen. Robert E. Lee’s army in Virginia.
After Federal forces occupied most of
North Carolina’s barrier islands and coastline in 1862, they attacked the state’s railroads, factories, and naval facilities. In
December 1862, Union Gen. John G. Foster
marched from New Bern to Goldsboro and
burned the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad bridge. Union Gen. Edward E. Potter,
raiding from New Bern in July 1863,
destroyed mills, trains, and bridges, including the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad
bridge at Rocky Mount. The Confederates
quickly restored rail service after each
raid. In October 1864, U.S. Navy Lt. William
B. Cushing destroyed the ironclad CSS
Albemarle at Plymouth, in one of several
attacks on river defenses.
By August 1864, Wilmington was the
last major Confederate seaport open to
blockade runners. After two attempts,
Union forces captured Fort Fisher on January 15, 1865, then secured rail centers
such as Goldsboro. Lee’s supply line was
cut, and the war ended three months later.
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February 1–April 26 Sherman’s Carolinas Campaign, S.C. and N.C.
March 19–21 Battle of Bentonville, N.C.
March 24–April 26 Stoneman’s Raid, Va. and N.C.
April 1 Battle of Five Forks, Va.
April 2–3 Fall of Petersburg and Richmond, Va., Lee’s Retreat Begins, Va.
How to Use this Map-Guide
rom the beginning of the Civil
War until its end, the proximity
of the national capitals—Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Virginia—made the Eastern Seaboard a center of military activity. Union blood was
first shed in the Baltimore Riots of April
19, 1861, and some of the last Confederate
casualties of the war fell in North Carolina four years later. The tides of war swept
over Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina again and again.
Confederate President Jefferson
Davis directed a defensive war at first.
When U.S. forces marched into northern
Virginia in July 1861, the result was a
stunning Confederate victory at Manassas
Junction. The Federals fared better along
the northeastern coast of North Carolina,
where Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside defeated
Confederate gunboats and land forces.
Gen. George B. McClellan led a massive U.S. army up the Peninsula against
Richmond in the spring of 1862, but Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee repulsed it
near the city limits in the Seven Days’
Battles in June. In the Shenandoah Valley,
meanwhile, Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall”
Jackson defeated several Union armies
before joining Lee at Richmond. Together,
RAIDS AGAINST THE LIFELINE
January 15 Surrender of Fort Fisher, N.C.
May 4–June 20 Overland Campaign, Va.
May 5–6 Battle of the Wilderness, Va.
May 8–19 Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Va.
May 31–June 12 Battle of Cold Harbor, Va.
June 15 Siege of Petersburg begins, Va.
May 1–3 Battle of Chancellorsville, Va.
May 10 Death of Stonewall Jackson, Va.
June 9 Battle of Brandy Station, Va.
June 26–July 1 Seven Days’ Battles, Va.
August 28–30 Second Battle of Manassas, Va.
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April 17–20 Battle of Plymouth, N.C.
1863
June 10 Battle of Big Bethel, Va.
July 21 First Battle of Manassas, Va.
★
485
RALEIGH
(Multiple Sites)
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January 11–March 14 Burnside Expedition, N.C.
September 4–19 Antietam Campaign, Va., Md., W.Va.
February 8 Battle of Roanoke Island, N.C.
September 14 Battle of South Mountain, Md.
March 14 Battle of New Bern, N.C.
September 17 Battle of Antietam, Md.
March 9 Battle of Hampton Roads (Monitor vs. Virginia), Va.
December 13 Battle of Fredericksburg, Va.
March 23–June 9 Jackson’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Va.
April 4–June 25 Peninsula Campaign, Va.
December 11–18 Foster’s Raid, N.C.
April 12 Shots fired at Fort Sumter, Charleston, S.C.
April 15 President Abraham Lincoln calls for volunteers to suppress “insurrection”
April 17 Virginia secedes
April 19 Baltimore Riots
May 21 North Carolina secedes
NORTH CAROLINA
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Morrisville
Hertford
(USCT Monument)
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440
17
301
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601
70
501
Winton
Jackson
(Battle of Boone’s Mill)
Historic Halifax
CSS Albemarle
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401
40
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85
Green River
Plantation
n December 21, 1864, Union Gen. William
T. Sherman completed his “March to the
Sea” and captured Savannah, Georgia. He soon
headed north through the Carolinas, planning
ultimately to link his army with those that
Union general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant accompanied in Virginia.
Sherman marched into South Carolina
on February 1, 1865. Confederate Gen. Joseph
E. Johnston concentrated his forces in central
North Carolina. Sherman divided his army
into left and right wings and entered the Tar
Heel State early in March. Union Gen. John M.
Schofield’s troops, en route to Goldsboro from
Wilmington, repulsed Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg’s forces at Wyse Fork near Kinston
on March 8–10.
Sherman occupied Fayetteville the next
day, then marched north. On March 16, Confederate Gen. William J. Hardee delayed Sherman’s left wing near Averasboro. Johnston
attacked Sherman three days later at Bentonville, where the Confederates at first routed
the lead Federal division. The two Union wings
then merged and almost severed Johnston’s
line of retreat on March 21. He withdrew
toward Smithfield that night, and Sherman
reached Goldsboro and Schofield on March 23.
Sherman advanced toward Raleigh on
April 10, while Johnston retreated to Greensboro. Learning of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s April 9
surrender at Appomattox Court House, they
came to terms on April 26 at Bennett Place
near Durham after much negotiation. Johnston surrendered almost 90,000 Confederate
troops in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida.
Moyock
Knotts Island
Battle of
Henry
Currituck
County CH
South Mills
Shaw
Maple
Gatesville
House
Battle of Elizabeth City
Albemarle &
Museum of the Albemarle
Chesapeake Canal
Indiantown
Creek Bridge
Wingfield
158
Wilmington & Weldon RR
O
540
Murfreesboro
(Roberts-Vaughn House)
Roanoke Canal
158
1
min
221
176
Mt Pleasant
29
74
25
Lowesville
74B
Duke
Homestead
DURHAM
Durham’s Station
Brassfield
Station
Roanoke Canal
Museum
CAROLINAS CAMPAIGN
Louisburg
College
85
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Columbus
(Polk County
Courthouse)
Hendersonville
64
Statesville
Hickory
Morganton
74A
601
64
Rocky Ford
Engagement
Carson
House
Marion
Canton
(Locust Field
Cemetery)
Mocksville
18
Vance
Birthplace
40
Lenoir
(St. James Church)
64
26
25
Waynesville
(Multiple Sites)
221
Mars Hill
College
70
Taylorsville
64
19E
Burnsville
(John McElroy House)
77
West
Point
The Last
Encampment
Bennett Place
Ruffin Mills
Leigh Farm
Holt’s Mill
The Mountaineer
213
n March 24, 1865, Union Gen. George
Stoneman led 6,000 cavalrymen from Tennessee into western North Carolina and southwestern Virginia to disrupt the Confederate
supply line by destroying sections of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, the North Carolina Railroad, and the Piedmont Railroad.
He also sought to liberate Union prisoners-ofwar held in Salisbury and hoped to deprive
the Confederate armies of supplies, cut off
avenues of retreat, and encourage Unionists
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in western and
central North Carolina.
Stoneman struck at Boone on March 28,
then divided his force and sent part into Virginia on April 2; it returned to North Carolina
a week later. On April 12, the Federals occupied Salisbury and burned the already abandoned prison, as well as public buildings,
industrial structures, and supply depots.
Stoneman moved west the next day, dividing
his command again in the face of limited
resistance. Other than a fight at Swannanoa
Gap, Stoneman and his cavalrymen encountered only bushwhackers and isolated groups
of Confederate soldiers.
Stoneman’s forces approached Asheville
on April 23, negotiated a truce, and rode
through the streets on April 26, while Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to Union Gen. William T. Sherman near
Durham. Two days later, part of Stoneman’s
force returned to Asheville to loot. Other
elements either continued to Tennessee or
joined the pursuit of Confederate President
Jefferson Davis into Georgia. Stoneman’s
Raid had ended.
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Other Civil War Trails Site
Marshall
(Col. Allen House)
70
40
Hillsborough
Hardee’s
Column
Vance County Tourism
252-438-2222
www.kerrlake-nc.com
Harper House, at Bentonville
Battlefield State Historic
Site in Johnston Co., was a
field hospital.
Wilson Visitors Center
800-497-7398
www.wilson-nc.com
Haywood County TDA
800-334-9036
www.smokeymountains.net
Winston-Salem CVB
866-728-4200
www.visitwinstonsalem.com
Jackson County TTA
800-962-1911
www.mountainlovers.com
Yadkin Valley C. of C.
336-526-1111
www.yadkinvalley.org
Madison County TDA
877-262-3476
www.visitmadisoncounty.com
MOUNTAIN REGION
Asheville CVB
800-920-1437
www.exploreasheville.com
Brevard/Transylvania C. of C.
828-883-3700
www.brevardncchamber.org
Rowan County CVB
800-332-2343
www.visitsalisburync.com
Burke County TTC
888-462-2921
www.discoverburkecounty.com
Statesville CVB
877-531-1819
www.visitstatesville.org
Caldwell County C. of C./TDA
800-737-0782
www.caldwellcochamber.org
Stokes County ED
336-593-2496
www.stokescounty.org
Franklin Area C. of C.
877-254-2583
www.franklin-chamber.com
Thomasville Tourism Commission
800-611-9907
www.thomasvilletourism.com
Graham Couinty TTA
800-470-3790
www.grahamcountytravel.com
The North Carolina Civil War Trails program is part of a five-state trails system
that invites you to explore both wellknown and less familiar sites associated
with America’s greatest drama. Together,
more than 1,000 places tell the epic and
heart-felt stories of civilians and soldiers
who experienced triumph and tragedy
during the war.
This map-guide identifies nearly
200 sites throughout North Carolina.
Each site is interpreted and accessible
and encourages you to explore diverse
settings where America’s destiny was
forged. Entire Trails and regions can be explored at your own pace,
and many sites offer other historical and recreational opportunities. Enjoy one of the numerous walking tours available in many
communities. Solicit the services of an outfitter for a once-in-alifetime adventure through the scenic and historic countryside.
Shop at one of hundreds of antique and specialty shops, dine
in 19th century taverns and inns, or simply walk amid the serenity
of a preserved battlefield. Let the stories you’ve discovered ignite
your imagination as you envision how now peaceful landscapes
were once the scenes of the deadliest battles known to man.
For more detailed travel information, visit any North Carolina,
Virginia or Maryland Welcome Center or local Visitor Center, or
contact any of the organizations listed in this guide. For additional
Civil War Trails information, visit www.civilwartrails.org.
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
CHARLESTON, WV
RICHMOND, VA
NASHVILLE, TN
RALEIGH, NC
NORTH CAROLINA TRAILS INFORMATION
www.visitnc.com
★★★
VIRGINIA TRAILS INFORMATION
McDowell County TDA
888-233-6111
www.mcdowellnc.org
Rutherford County TDA
800-849-5998
www.rutherfordtourism.com
BALTIMORE,
MD
1.800. VISIT NC
Maggie Valley Area
Visitors Bureau
800-624-4431
www.maggievalley.org
Polk Co. T & T
800-440-7848
www.nc-mountains.org
Follow this sign to discover
more than 1,000 Civil War
sites along ten breathtaking
trails. Hundreds of sites
are accessible to the public
for the first time.
1-888-CIVILWAR
www.virginia.org
★★★
MARYLAND TRAILS INFORMATION
Enjoy the scenic and historic countryside
throughout North Carolina.
1-888-CIVILWR
www.visitmaryland.org
★★★
TENNESSEE TRAILS INFORMATION
Wilkes County C. of C.
336-838-8662
www.wilkesnc.org
1-615-532-7520
www.tnvacation.com
Yancey County/Burnsville
C. of C.
800-948-1632
www.visityancey.com
★★★
WEST VIRGINIA TRAILS INFORMATION
1-800-CALL WVA
Follow these signs to more than 1,000 Civil War sites.
www.callwva.com
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Burlington
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DU
58
on
al
Se
as
ho
re
101
70 Newport
RIV
R I V E R
rry
12
sN
era
a tt
H
pe
Ca
Ocracoke
Lighthouse
Hoop Pole
Creek
Fort Macon
State Park
Huggins Island Battery
at Hammocks Beach State Park
Cape Lookout Lighthouse
“The importance of the point [Hatteras]
cannot be overrated. … From there the whole
coast of Virginia and North Carolina …
is within our reach. … From it offensive operations may be made upon the whole coast
of North Carolina … extending many miles
inland. … In the language of … an official
report, ‘it is the key of the Albemarle.’”
Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, U.S. Army,
Aug. 30, 1861
17
R
E R
117
76
CSS Albemarle
ST
Fort Johnston
Free
Ferry
Battery Buchanan
John Wright
Stanly House
Jones
House
Tryon
Palace
To
Fort Fisher
To
Cameron
Art Museum
76
ST
ST
AR
GE
ND
EN
CH
Cat Hole of the Neuse
70
Confederate
Line of Defense
Union Point Park
258
H FR
SOUT
New Bern
Battlefield
(4 miles)
Bald Head
Island
NEW BERN
S o u t h w e s t
V
R I
E
R
S
EAST FRONT ST
LI
POLLOCK ST
Confederate
Retreat
E
N E U
Stall’s
Battery
11
T
ONT S
DAWSON ST.
Clarendon
Bridge
BUS
CRAVEN ST
Fort Fisher
Attmore-Oliver
House
MIDDLE ST
Carolina Beach
State Park
BROAD ST
70
17
HANCOCK ST
17
BERN ST
16TH ST
E R
R I V
Fort
Anderson
Remains of the Ironclad CSS Neuse,
CSS Neuse Historic Site, Kinston
NEW ST
New Bern
Academy Hospital
CSS Neuse
Historic Site
Last Mass
Union Capture
Harriet’s
Chapel
Wyse Fork
0
5
10
15
20
Mileage Scale
Civil War Trails Site
e e k
RIN
G S
AND
T
ER S
T
ALE
X
Cape Fear
Museum
Wilmington
National
Cemetery
WOOSTER ST.
PER
COO
L SP
T
KS
421
74
17
ST
QU
METCALF ST
24
Fayetteville
Independent Light
Infantry Parade
Grounds
SON
Sandford
House
Bellamy
Mansion
F E A R
T
N ST
NS
T
ST
ESPIE
GILL
MARKET ST
VE S
AN
GREE
Market
House
87
PRINCESS ST
N
EE
National
Cemetery
(1 mile)
EDEN ST
L S
T
DIC
SEL
ST
17TH ST
RAY
IN
133
CHESTNUT ST
GRO
FRA
NKL
GRACE ST
3RD ST
Cross Creek
Cemetery
MA
IDE
NL
AN
E
OLD ST
RUS
301
ST
ST
Forks Road
Engagement
at Cameron
Art Museum
JOHNSON ST
GE ST
NS
ON
ROW
AN
Oakdale
Cemetery
Greenwood
Cemetery
GEOR
T
HAY ST
ESO
LAM
MAS
ON
ST
(At WWII Memorial)
ROB
ST
4TH ST
AVE
EW
AY
F RE
JR .
NG
R KI
T HE
Edward Hale House
BRADFORD AVE
M A RT
IN LU
ORE
76
WILMINGTON
C A
P E
L
Free Ferry
58
W
PA
Fe
ore (Graveyard of the
ash
Atlantic Museum)
l Se
a
n
atio
R
F E A
Wilmington
Railroad
Museum
ST
Cashiers
(Zachary-Tolbert
House)
WILMINGTON
FAYETTEVILLE
W
BO
Museum
of the
Cape Fear
401
178
Burgaw
E . C A P E
W ROWAN ST
276
64
N .
87
74
ST
Macon Co.
Historical
Museum
RAMSEY
176
ORANGE ST
64
Confederate States Armory sword guard
cast in letters CSA, Confederate States
Armory, Kenansville, North Carolina
Courtesy Liberty Hall, Kenansville, N.C.
301
MO
D
ARSENAL AVE
25
VD
BL
AY
Brevard
NR
RK
74
G
64
ISO
26
Allison-Deaver
House
PA
W
AG
GE
441
RCH
D
280
National Forest
MU
Pisgah
BR
276
RI
Franklin
(Dixie Hall)
64
Lumberton
To
ll
Cedar
Island
NWR
I V
E R
24
E
Cape Hatteras
Lighthouse
S O U N D
74A
24
Thomas’s Legion
19B
R
40
Greenhill
Cemetery
E
74
E
421
Sergeant Powhatan Beaty, 5th U.S.C.T.
Beaty’s regiment fought at the Forks Road
engagement on Feb. 20-21, 1865, against
the last Confederate stand before the
Federals captured Wilmington on Feb. 22.
23
129
IV
Vance
Birthplace
Canton
(Locust Field Cemetery)
Battle
House
N
53
D
EK R
RE
40
Waynesville
Engagement
BLU
CHEROHALA SKYW
AY
19
R
74
301
ASHEVILLE
R
Jacksonville
Cushing’s New River Raid
RR)
26
SmithMcDowell
House
276
74
Nantahala National Forest
70
25
23
129
Mars Hill
College
E
Havelock
on
eld
& W
RA
R
501
9
Marshall
(Col. Allen House)
E
211
19
Robbinsville
(Civil War in
Graham County)
Stewart-HawleyMalloy House
213
Hot Springs
(Warm Springs Hotel)
Maggie Valley
(Kirk’s Raid)
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
401
S
Croatan
National
Forest
on
T
Laurinburg
U
41
ngt
79
Cheraw
213
11
17
95
RD
New Bern
Battlefield
a ti
IRE
DW
OL
12
y
Ferr
Toll
117
Laurel Hill
Church
Laurel Hill
New Bern
Academy Hospital
Union
Point Park
258
lmi
IAN
Skirmish at
Wilson’s Store
Bethel
Church
B
Colonel William H. Thomas
Courtesy North Carolina
Office of Archives and History
L
H
AC
74
Attmore-Oliver
House Museum
306
John Wright Stanly House
Jones House
(Wi
19W
1
A L L I G A T O R
MIA
MI B
LVD
RD
52
Murdoch
Morrison
Gun Factory
ay
Lantern recovered
fron the USS Monitor,
Graveyard of the
Atlantic Museum.
Courtesy NOAA
Confederate
States Armory
M
L U
William H. Thomas to his wife,
June 17, 1861
AP
Wagram
200
Pea
Island
NWR
Hatteras
Kenansville
87
264
17
New Bern
15
Rockingham
Bodie Island
Lighthouse
Swanquarter
NWR
oo
ko
ut
N
OXB
O
)
RR
nt
mo
ied
(P
NN
Waxhaw
301
601
75
“The mountains of Western North Carolina
would be the center of the Confederacy;
we shall then have one of the most prosperous countries in the world. It will become
connected with every part of the South
by railroad. It will then become the center
of manufacturing for the Southern market
[and] the place where the southern people
will spend their money, educate their
children, and very probably make laws
for the nation.”
I
74
Roanoke
Island
Alligator
River
NWR
264
R IV
ER
Cap
eL
ST
A
D
Y
WA
RK
PA
Monroe
211
501
rw
Roanoke Island
Festival Park
64
P A M L I C O
70
58
Warsaw
(Veterans
Memorial
Museum)
24
401
ate
NAGS HEAD
118
Confederate
Wyse Fork
Line of Defense
Union Attack
at Southwest Creek
11
FAY E T T E V I L L E
77
Jockey’s Ridge
State Park
E
Cherokee Indian Chuttahsotee’s rifle, Thomas’s Legion
Courtesy Macon County Historical Museum
W
N
Market House and square in Fayetteville, late 19th century.
Courtesy North Carolina State Archive
Engagement
at Whitehall
40
421
158
I V
REEM
SC
295
ST
701
S
210
AM
111
13
ST
82
ON
485
117
55
PLYMOUTH
General Benjamin F. Butler
581
Mount
Olive
T
74
Church
64
Lake Mattamuskeet NWR
Cat Hole
CSS Neuse
Kinston
Historic Site
Confederate Retreat
Last Mass Union Capture
Stall’s Battery
55
AD
178
87
St. John’s
Church
RD
NS
276
401 Old Bluff
55
Grifton
T
24
601
Departing
Averasboro
D
ER HOU SE R
HARP
AN
ta l
NS
CHARLOTTE
82
58
Battle of
Goldsboro Bridge
Merging of the Armies
Bentonville
13
Battlefield
HA NR AH
ST
Averasboro
Battlefield Museum
C.S. 3rd Line
85
701
Dunn Route to
Bentonville
210
43
11
Hookerton
Goldsboro
Wayne County Museum
LI
CO
OE
27
123
13
PA
M
99
A Y
301
Hannah’s
Creek
Village of
Bentonville
Willow
Dale
Cemetery
coas
Siege of Washington
Black
Jack
12
R W
T E
W A
87
501
Scuffleton
Ayden
Bridge
(Hancock &
Rose Hill
Churches)
I n t er
Washington
USS Picket
R
V E
R I
27
903
ST
R
24
DE
RA VIL
CE
T
70
Greenville
(Multiple Sites)
H
R T
109
33
Grimsley
Church
Hastings
House
Oakdale Cemetery
264
258
Smithfield
C.S. Line
of March
49
Lake
Wylie
264
Farmville
(May Museum)
Alligator
Lake
32
Tranters
Creek
4TH
O
27
74
Falkland
Mitchener
Station
421
15
Green River
Plantation
25
40
210
Pocosin
Lakes
NWR
301
U.S. Line
of March
Mt Pleasant 73
29
74B
221
176
401
Sanford
52
E
Columbus
(Polk County
Courthouse)
Lowesville
95
70
RD
CK
RA
Allison-Deaver
House
Brevard
273
Rutherfordton
I V
64
R
26
National Forest
K
74A
280
Clayton
1
220
St. John’s
Church
Concord
N
77
Cottage Home
Somerset Place
Phelps Lake
Confederate Military
Hospital No. 2
Garner
ST
158
Creswell
64
3RD
Freedmen’s
Colony
43
70
85
A
Jordan
Lake
BUS
Kannapolis
Lincolnton
301
Wilson
64
29
221
Chimney Rock Village
(Hickory Nut Gorge)
RALEIGH
54
Harris
Lake
321
74A
64A
Ausbon
House
ST
N D
S O U
Columbia
Pettigrew
State Park
Plymouth
Asa Biggs House
ST
Point Harbor
94
55
16
R
IV
R I
V E
R
IN
MA
TER
WA
R
Lake
Norman
Asheboro
49
Salisbury
E
S
Cary
501
64
Williamston
64
R
C.S.Military
Prison
440
I M
A N
64
V E
R I
Rowan County Courthouse
Hall House
64
Old Fort
(Swannanoa Gap)
Canton
(Locust Field Cemetery)
276
21
Morrisville
Princeville
BlountBridges
House
O
I
17
Fort Branch
Edgecombe Cemetery
U
13
Hamilton
Tarboro
U
R
ASHEVILLE
74
64
70
Newton
R
Roanoke River
NWR
“Battle of Bentonville,”
Harper’s Weekly
40
D E
E P
R
V E
R I
40
Marion
40
70
Morganton
(Burke County
Courthouse)
64
Q
E
A R L
E M
B
L
A
Windsor
98
L
R
Edenton
(Battle of Albemarle Sound)
17
Rocky
Mount
401
Brassfield
Station
70
87
125
I V
E R
E
A
Carson House
311
4
540
Chapel Hill
E
109
Hickory
1
DURHAM
147
903
Louisburg
College
Falls Lake
N
Hertford
(USCT Monument) P
T
Vance
Birthplace
85
Lexington
54
Snow Camp
(Multiple Sites)
Thomasville
Homestead
Statesville
Iredell Co. Court House
Trinity
49
601
64
16
A
13
Q
17
T
Rocky Ford
Engagement
D
EK R
RE
Piedmont
Railroad
Davidson Co.
Courthouse
18
70
Cemetery
H
421
Bennett
Place Durham’s
Station
Leigh
Farm
A
95
15
Historic
West Stagville
Point
Duke
Homestead
V
R I
64
Mars Hill
College
220
W
64
Hospitals
Jefferson Davis
Encampment
Mocksville
Hillsborough
O
258
85
85
52
77
64
Lenoir
(St. James Church)
125
Hardee’s
The Last
Column Encampment
Ruffin
Mills
Holt’s Mill
Regulators’
Field
85
High Point
40
40
Historical
Museum
311
21
221
40
68
Wingfield
45
S
E
Patterson Mill
19E
SmithMcDowell
House
Old Salem
Museum &
Gardens
PA
R
501
Indiantown
Albemarle &
Creek Bridge Chesapeake Canal
L
213
Hot Springs
Warm Springs Hotel
RR)
70
Raiding
Huntsville
Jackson
34
Battle of Elizabeth City
Museum of the Albemarle
(Multiple Sites)
T
Windsor
Crossroads
olina
rth Car
Burning
of Winton
11
Burlington
(Multiple Sites)
32
Historic Halifax
CSS Albemarle
903
R
601
(No
343
37
Winton
R
V E
R I
GREENSBORO
Battle of Boone’s Mill
E
O K
421
Gatesville
Murfreesboro
(RobertsVaughn House)
Kittrell
Confederate
Cemetery
49
29
WINSTON-SALEM
158
T
D
Yadkinville
Fort
Hamby
321
Blalock
Family
Wilkesboro
Bond School
House
Pisgah National Forest
25
Piedmont
Railroad
Occaneechi
In Service
Weldon
48
BLVD
RALEIGH
Reidsville
158
Roanoke Canal
Wilmington & Weldon RR
Roanoke
Rapids
Henderson
R
VE
RI
194
CLUB
R
MAR
TIN LUTHER KIN
G JR
DURHAM
ENO
421
Cranberry
Iron Mine
A P P A L A CH I A N T R A I L
Pisgah National Forest
26
Belews
Lake
52
15
540
65
220
Richmond Hill
Burnsville
(John McElroy House)
Marshall
(Col. Allen House)
311
Wentworth
Cemetery
Jonesville
19W
213
704
Vance’s Governor’s Mansion
70
158
TW ALEXANDER DR
158
14
67
George
Avery
LENOIR ST
54
40
Roanoke
Canal
Museum
CABARRUS ST
C H
O W A N
Banner
Elk
Smith-McDowell
House
Boone
Annie Eliza
Wentworth Johns
Madison
401
A L
S T
Rockford
(York Tavern)
321
194
Siloam
(Reeves
Homeplace)
Brassfield
Station
W
Mackay Island
National Wildlife Refuge
Moyock
Knotts Island
Currituck County
Currituck NWR
Free
Courthouse
Ferry
Henry Shaw
Currituck
House Maple
Beach
Lighthouse
Seven Patriot
Heroes
Dismal Swamp
National Wildlife
Refuge
Battle of
South Mills
158
N
Birds-eye view of the C.S. Military Prison,
lithograph by C.A. Kraus in 1886, Salisbury, N.C.
Scales
Law Office
Hanging Rock
State Park
Moratock Iron
Furnace
268
Camp
Clingman
147
RD
SOUTH ST
87
301
17
258
NR
221
Enslavement
WA
L
LIS
Glencoe
Thomaston
DAVIE ST
Leaksville Cotton Mill
135
Moody
Tavern
74
MARTIN ST
Battle of Plymouth
(Port o’ Plymouth
Museum)
Cushing’s
Torpedo
13
35
95
DIS
E
Leigh
Farm
NEW BERN AVE
State
Capitol
Fort Compher
Battlefield
CSS Albemarle
TO
ING
89
RN
751
EDENTON ST
1
55
CO
58
SH
WA
Eden
89
HARGETT ST
Franklin
58
SO
FER
JEF
DG
Dan
River
58
Emporia
(Village View Manor)
58
JONES ST
MA
220
Mount
Airy
360
15
V ER
RI
N
58
501
98
501
70
RO
Danville
(Multiple Sites)
58
HILLSBOROUGH ST
LANE ST
58
St.
58 Mary’s School
SR
Martinsville
103
NC Museum
of History
Village of
Village of
Riddick’s Deep Creek
Great Bridge
Folly
Dismal
Siege of
Pleasant Grove
Swamp
Suffolk
Baptist Church 168 Gabriel Chapel &
Canal
Cemetery
Cuffeytown Cemetery
MO
BL
Battery
Porter
RI
UE
Boydton
(Boyd Tavern)
Backwater
Line
A
C O
E R
I N T
Confederate
Prison
Pisgah
58
8
21
15
Courtland
(Mahone’s Tavern)
Carolinas Campaign Driving Route
58
Cr
Union Attack
at Southwest Creek
State or National Forest
KINSTON
Information or Welcome Center
ANE
IN L
773
Riverside
Cemetery
USCT
360
Oakwood
Cemetery
K
RAN
77
70
Durham’s Station
Laurel Hill
(J.E.B. Stuart
Birthplace)
58
85
BUS
GLENWOOD ST
58
52
221
POLK ST
OAKWOOD AVE
ER
ASHEVILLE
Battle of
Asheville
Bennett 360
Place
29
ST MARY’S ST
Halifax Court House