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(November 2010)
Civil War Trail's marker in the series
of about 10 that were recently installed in Alamance County, NC. This one
tells of the withdrawal of Johnston's Army of Tennessee toward Greensboro |
(November 2010) This is the crossing at the Haw River in Alamance County, NC by the Army of Tennessee as they withdrew across North Carolina. Here at this crossing, a number of young soldiers in the North Carolina Junior Reserves lost their lives drowning in the deep crossing |
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(November 2010) This is the road bed on the west bank of the Haw River crossing which the Army of Tennessee continued its march through Alamance County |
(November 2010) This crossing by
Confederate soldiers at the end of the Civil War also marks the site of the
march of Governor Tryon's troops toward Alamance prior to the Battle of
Alamance in 1771, which was an ignition which helped spark the American
Revolution |
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(November 2010) Confederate soldiers crossed this river in to the town of Alamance in April 1865. They bivouacked on both sides of the river |
(November 2010) Confederate
troops of the Army of Tennessee passed through downtown Company Shops, a
large railroad yard at the beginning of the outset of the war. Here,
Johnston delivered a farewell address to his men after the surrender
negotiations at the Bennett Farm near Durham Station |
