Running The Blockade-- Mayors Proclaim Confederate History Month-- Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, NC-- Oakwood Cemetrery, Raleigh, NC

Running the Blockade--News of the War.

1. MAYORS OF SHREVEPORT AND BOSSIER CITY PROCLAIM CONFEDERATE HISTORY MONTH--  It will be declared this week.  Shreveport was the objective of the Union's Red River Campaign in 1864 and was where Confederate President Jefferson Davis was headed when he was captured.

The actions of these men are commendable, especially in this politically correct era.  

2.  OAKDALE CEMETERY, WILMINGTON, NC--  This from the Topsail Advertiser's North Carolina Minute by J.C. Knowles.  One of the  interesting graves in this cemetery is that of a girl buried in a keg of rum.  The grave of Confederate spy Rose Greenhow and 500 Confederates killed in an explosion after Fort Fisher fell and others who died in yellow fever epidemics, especially the one in 1862.  There is also the grave of the last man in NC killed in a duel.

I'm not sure of the 500 killed at the explosion as being Confederates, unless that is where they were being held after the fort fell.  Otherwise, they would have been Union soldiers. 

I should add that Gen. W.H.C. Whiting's grave is there as well.  He, along with Col. William Lamb were responsible for the construction of Fort Fisher.  He died in a northern prison and was buried there until being disinterred and brought back to his adopted Wilmington some time after the war's end.

3.  OAKWOOD CEMETERY, RALEIGH, NC--  Also from NC Minute--  Has the body of a man killed going over Niagara Falls, the grave of the only Confederate soldier killed in Raleigh's surrender, and the grave of Ensign Worth Bagley, the only American Naval officer killed in the Spanish-American War. 

Some News of that Old War.  --Old B-Runner