A mound visible along New Bern Ave. in Raleigh NC has been identified as the remnant of a Civil War battery and has been registered with the state of NC as an archaeological site.… Read More New Bern Ave. – A Civil War Battery in Plain Sight
A.R. Bredenberg has released a new version of his Google Map of the 1863 Raleigh entrenchments.… Read More Map of Raleigh’s 1863 Entrenchments Completely Revised
Here is a link to the latest version of the Google Map of Raleigh’s Civil War entrenchments.… Read More Google Map of Raleigh Civil War Earthworks – Most Recent Map
If you stand at the corner of Peace Street and West Street, where the new Publix market is, and look northwest, you’ll be looking up to the hilltop where John and Margaret (Mordecai) Devereux lived with their children.… Read More Raleigh’s Civil War Fortifications Protected the Home of Quartermaster John Devereux
West Point map of Confederate railroads shows the interconnections of railroads in the south and mid-Atlantic. and how close the Wilmington and Weldon came to Raleigh.… Read More Railroad Map: Union Raids on RR Posed a Threat to Raleigh
Examples from Petersburg National Battlefield demonstrate how reconstructions could be used to show what Raleigh’s Civil War defenses looked like.… Read More Reconstructed Earthworks at Petersburg Natl. Battlefield
Use this Google Map to explore Raleigh’s Civil War fortifications on today’s landscape.… Read More Google Map of Raleigh’s Civil War Earthworks
Lt Col Henry T. Guion, the author of the 1863 map, did not include a key, so I’ve had to do a bit of study in glossaries and guides to decide how to label the portions of wall themselves.… Read More Redans, Angles, Entrenchments – Labeling Features on the 1863 Map of Raleigh’s Wall
Could Civil War earthworks still be seen on today’s landscape, 150 years later? Definitely. This video from the Cold Harbor battlefield shows striking examples.… Read More What could Civil War earthworks look like today? Example from Cold Harbor
The southernmost stretch of Civil War earthworks around Raleigh, NC, were near an area marked Green’s Land on the 1863 and 1865 maps. A composite graphic shows how we can determine that this loop of fortifications ran near the current intersection of S. Saunders St. and I-440.… Read More ‘Green’s Place’ 1863 Civil War artillery emplacement at Raleigh, NC, – southernmost redan, on today’s S. Saunders St.
Raleigh's Wall and the American Civil War 