I have some friends in from Colorado for the day. One of them loves anything dealing with Civil War history. Yesterday we went to the Avarsboro battlefield. The Bentonville Battlefield was closed yesterday & today. Does anyone know of other locations not too far away that my be interesting? Thanks In Advance for You Help!!
Is Charleston too far away? It's about a 4 1/2 - 5 hour drive, but, for a Civil war buff, Fort Sumter, Fort Moultrie and the Hunley exhibit are usually near the top of most people's must see list.
I can't remember the exact website, but the state has a Civil War trail you can check out with interesting places where markers can be found. There is the Battle of Goldsboro where a smaller scale battle was fought. Seven Springs about 20 miles southeast of Goldsboro had a pretty significant battle fought there. The bluffs of the Neuse stand tall and there was a major artillery exchange from about where the old Methodist church stands on the hill. One side was dug in on the opposite side of the river and the other lobbed artillery shells from the bluffs. Also the CSS Neuse was built there at the Neuse River. During the Civil War, Seven Springs was called Whitehall. Mount Olive also has one or two markers. There is a house (private residence) that you can see from the street where high-ranking officers occupied while one flank of the Federal Army camped in Mount Olive before rejoining the rest at Bentonville. Kinston has several sites. The remnants of the original CSS Neuse is near the mall on Vernon Ave. Some Civil War buffs that were boat builders have built a full-scale model of the CSS Neuse in downtown Kinston and called it the CSS Neuse II. I belive the website is www.cssneuseii.com or something similiar. That may be a great stopover. I think they give tours of the boat and like I said, its the only known full scale civil war warship in existance. The Smithfield Courthouse site is also a Civil War landmark. It was there that General Sherman announced to his troops after occupying Goldsboro for about two weeks that General Lee had surrendered.
VA Fredricksburg, Manasas, Charlottesville VA. Virginia is full of Civil War sites. All within a couple of hours.
I would definitely head this way as well, Fred is only about 3 hours away - I just went there a year or so ago. And I like Fort Fisher as well. http://www.civilwartrails.org/
Bennet Place in Durham where the last major army surrendered. It was a more significant number of troops than Lee's surrender.
I am an avid civil war reenactor and know of many places you could visit other than the obvious. Ft.Fisher in wilmington is awsome, the fayetteville arsenal located in downtown fayetteville all that remains are the foundation but they also have a pretty good museum, monroes crossroads in ft bragg, ft macon in caterett county is one of the collest places ive ever been to http://www.crystalcoast.com/fortmacon/ in plymouth they have an actual sized replica of a iron clad that you can go in, and ft branch located in hamilton
