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Each year since 2008, the Hot Springs Resort & Spa hosts a Civil War re-enactment of that skirmish. The skirmish occurred when two Union Infantry groups–the 2nd and 3rd North Carolina Mounted Infantry regiments–were stationed at Warm Springs as a recruiting camp.
Sep 13, 2018 · When the Confederate government in Richmond asked North Carolina to come up with a new prison facility, Salisbury, then the largest city in the central part of state, offered the most attractive option: a school campus with several buildings on 16 acres.
- Inhuman Village
- No Chivalry
- Desperate Times
- Fatal Uprisings
- Final Liberation
All that changes in 1864, as fighting intensifies on all fronts. As the year opens, the prison swells to 2,500 occupants — more than the total population of Salisbury at the outbreak of war. By October 1864, the number of POW’s approaches 9,000. The large, brick building has been taken over by the wounded and ill — except the top story, occupied by...
Into this prison marches Union Pvt. Benjamin F. Booth on the cold, drizzly afternoon of November 4, 1864. It is his and his comrades’ special misfortune to be captured at the Battle of Cedar Creek in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Booth is 26 years old, a large, robust man of 181 pounds, a two-year combat veteran who can handle himself in a bra...
In his diary, which he keeps faithfully from the day of his enlistment forward, Booth records that one poor fellow has nothing at all wrong with him physically but dies anyway “from sheer despondency.” And it is true: The most virulent epidemic sweeping the prison is despair. The blacksmith shop has been turned into the dead-house, where bodies are...
The hellish plight of the prisoners leads them to a bloody uprising just weeks after Booth enters Salisbury. On November 25, 1864, a mob of prisoners storms the gate. They overpower a handful of guards and take their muskets, and push out of the stockade. But the other guards turn artillery on them — three cannons loaded with grapeshot, canisters f...
On April 12, 1865, Gen. George Stoneman assaults Salisbury with 5,000 cavalry troopers with the aim of liberating the Union prisoners. In short order, Stoneman’s troopers overwhelm the few hundred invalid troops who stand in their way and enter the town. But only a handful of prisoners too ill to travel remain. The rest have already been evacuated ...
The Civil War in Madison County. Because Madison County was a “border county” in a “border state” during the Civil War, there are many examples of communities as well as families divided in their allegiances.
Sep 3, 2024 · Surrounded by a simple board fence, Salisbury Prison promised to be a prison for Confederate soldiers who had committed military offenses, deserters, spies, and Southern citizens suspected of disloyalty.
Jan 5, 2015 · The prison in Salisbury was the only prisoner of war camp in North Carolina during the Civil War. Constructed on 16 acres surrounding a former cotton mill, it was designed to hold...
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Because they were civilians, they could not be called “prisoners’ of-war” but were named “enemy aliens” by the Department of Immigration. Consequently, 2200 passengers, officers and crew members came by train to Hot Springs and spent the remaining 19 months of the war in the internment camp.
