From the Dec. 15, 2015, Mountain XPress (Asheville, N.C.) "North Carolina History Center launches statewide Civil War story project, seeks oral histories" by Max Hunt.
The North Carolina Civil War History Center plans to collect 100 family Civil War stories from each of the state's 100 counties. It is one of the largest public history projects ever attempted in North Carolina. Every family has handed-down stories and this will be an attempt to collect them in the project, entitles "Our State, Our Stories" before they are lost.
The center has now employed "Story Specialists" to assist and plans on canvasing local SCV, UDC and SUVCW groups.
They will be using three methods of collecting the stories:
1. Online submission
2. Oral histories recorded by the "story specialists"
3. Printed forms
The History Center will cost $85 million when completed and is in Fayetteville, right next to the ruins of the Fayetteville Arsenal which was destroyed by Sherman in March 1865.
--Old Secesh
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