Program Focuses on Teenage Soldiers During the Civil War

From the April 2, 2016, Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer, AP.

The Alamance Battleground State Historic Park in Burlington, N.C. held a program and re-enactment April 2-3 to portray the roles played by teenage soldiers.

North Carolina formed the Junior Reserves in the last year of the war which comprised very young males to help ease the lack of Confederate manpower.

The Alamance Battlefield site is where rebelling farmers fought colonial militia in 1771, years before the Revolutionary War.

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