Some More On the Historic Home Torn Down In Kinston-- Part 1

From the July 22, 2018, Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer  "Historic Civil War home in Kinston succumbs to time" Eddie Fitzgerald.

It was old, and once stately, and the home of a lieutenant in the Confederate Army who was killed, the headquarters of a Confederate general and on a battlefield, but it is now gone.

Monday, the Robert Bond Vause House was in a pile of rubble.  It sat in the middle of the Wyse Fork Battlefield off Bill Smith Road.

Before and during the early part of the Civil War, the home was owned by Lt. Robert Bond Vause before he was killed at the Battle of Fort Anderson in 1862.  This Union fort guarded occupied New Bern, N.C..  It was also the headquarters of Confederate General Robert Ranson Jr. during the battles of Gum Swamp and Dover.

Ransom was dismissed from duty the year before the Battle of Wyse Fork because of illness.

It then stood in the middle of the Battle of Wyse Fork,  March 7-10, 1865, also known as the Battle of Kinston or Second Battle of Kinston.

A House With A Lot of History.  --Old Secesh