The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Wilmington's Pine Valley's Streets Named After Confederates-- Part 3

I also did not see a Maffitt Drive which would have been named after Confederate blockade-runner John Newland Maffitt, CSN.

Other Confederate Names:

Longstreet Drive (had it been a street, it would have been Longstreet Street)
Joe Wheeler Dr.
Beauregard Dr.
Robert E. Lee Dr.
Pickett Dr.
Jeb Stuart Dr.
John S. Mosby Dr.
Stonewall Jackson Dr.
Johnston Dr.
Early Dr.
Pettigrew Dr.
Pemberton Dr.
Chalmers Dr.
Van Dorn Dr.
Greenhowe Dr.--named for the famous Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhowe, who died by drowning while evacuating the blockade-runner Condor.

Kirby Smith Dr.
Ewell Dr.
Robert S. Garnett Dr.

Definitely NOT a Politically-Correct Subdivision These Days. I Salute Them. --Old B-Runner