From the April 12th ENC "Civil War Trail Marks Union and Confederacy" by Shantell Middleton.
Some Civil War sites around Greenville.
RED BANKS CHURCH-- Greenville. Burned down by Union soldiers in 1863. Rebuilt 30 years later.
On Dec. 17, 1863, Federal troops attacked the nearby camp of Co. H, 3rd NC Cavalry and captured 35 men. Thirteen days later, the church was set afire. Co. G of the 3rd NC Cavalry galloped to the church, only to be have the Federal soldiers get in behind, them, capturing one cannon, four men and killing on Confederate officer.
HADDOCK'S CROSSROADS-- A Confederate camp where the road connects Greenville, Kinston and New Bern in Winterville.
WILLIAM STILL, JR., Naval historian says that North Carolina was the place for Confderetae Naval shipbuilding during the war. "There was a good bit of shipbuilding in this state prior to the Civil War. They built a lot of commercial vessels all the way from Wilmington to Elizabeth City."
During the war, two ironclad ships were built at Wilmington (and a third under construction when the city fell. Then there were also the ironclads Albemarle and Neuse.
Confederate North Carolina. --Old B-Runner
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