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| - (under construction, purpose is to gather more information from informed Historians on the subject) source: In the last days of the American Civil War, just after Gen. Robert E. Lee had surrendered his Army of Virginia in Richmond, VA, the final skirmishes of that war were fought just east of Chapel Hill, NC, by the flanking defenders of Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's remaining army of the South, the Confederacy. The North Carolina Collection, a historical collection housed at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, makes reference to these skirmishes, which involved calvary and army foot soldiers, along the swamps that border the area of present day NC Highway 54 and Interstate 40 in that region due east of Chapel Hill along the Stage Coach Rd. (just north of present day J
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| - (under construction, purpose is to gather more information from informed Historians on the subject) source: In the last days of the American Civil War, just after Gen. Robert E. Lee had surrendered his Army of Virginia in Richmond, VA, the final skirmishes of that war were fought just east of Chapel Hill, NC, by the flanking defenders of Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's remaining army of the South, the Confederacy. The North Carolina Collection, a historical collection housed at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, makes reference to these skirmishes, which involved calvary and army foot soldiers, along the swamps that border the area of present day NC Highway 54 and Interstate 40 in that region due east of Chapel Hill along the Stage Coach Rd. (just north of present day Jordan Lake). General Johnston had his Confederate troops hold up in the town of Hillsboro, NC (a former western capitol of the State dating back to the early 1700's), they would soon surrender their dwindling number (estimated to be as much as 35,000 men but declining in number daily) at Bennett's Place, a farmstead situated along the Hillsboro Rd. between present day Durham, NC and Hillsboro. The importance of these skirmishes is the fact that they are believed to be the very last of The American Civil War, while there is some controversy on the subject (claims have been made of Western United States actions that continued in Kansas, Missouri, Texas, and other frontier areas as well). Any information concerning these final skirmishes is much appreciated, a handful of letters document these military confrontations, the news of the day was most focused on the recent assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, that followed the surrender of Lee's army to Gen. Grant at Appomattox, VA. It is interesting to note that US Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman gave rather generous terms of surrender at first to Johnston at Bennett's Place, but that he was soon over ruled by a Congress in the passion of the day, following the Presidential Assassination. US Gen. Sherman also had spared the city of Raleigh, NC, the State Capitol, from being burned to the ground, most likely based on the fact that the State Governor had been partial to not entering the War, and that most of Eastern North Carolina (excluding the last stronghold port city of Wilmington, NC) had fallen early to the North, there was a degree of sympathy shown for North Carolina.
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