Fort York, Last Confederate Victory in North Carolina-- Part 1

From the March 28, 2017, Salisbury (NC) Post by Wayne Hinshaw.

Roy barber is a New York native now living in North Carolina who is very involved in anything to do with history and Civil War history in the Salisbury area.  He had ancestors fighting for the Union in the war.

Fort York is on a hilltop overlooking the Yadkin River at the junction of I-85 and U.S.-29.  The Land Trust for Central North Carolina purchased the 12.5 acre site and sold it to Davidson County in hopes the county would open it as a battlefield park.

Fort York was called Camp Yadkin, Fort Beauregard as well during its time in the Civil War.  At one time it was also the York Hill Campground, several of its sites and buildings still remain.

During the Civil War, the site was free of trees, but today it is heavily forested.

--Old Secesh

North Carolina's Fort York to be Saved

From the Jan. 9, 2015, Davidson County (NC) Dispatch "state gives grant for acquiring property at Fort York."

The Clean Water Management Trust Fund gave $187,000 to help the Land Trust for Central North Carolina acquire about 13 acres on the Yadkin River in Davidson County.

This acreage contains parts of the former Fort York historic site, where one of the last Confederate victories of the war took place.  Unaware that the war had ended three days earlier (Lee's surrender which actually did not end the war), Confederates fought in April 1865 to prevent destruction of a rail bridge over the river.

Plans call for reopening the area and fort, long identified as one of the state's most significant unprotected Civil War sites.

--Old Secesh