Record #:

22913

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

A collection of Pitt County Civil War stories about various topics is documented. In this collection there is a humorous story of Confederate soldiers waiting for Greenville to be invaded by Union troops, upon hearing noises coming, prepared to fight, only to find it was only a drove of cattle. In 1909, Don L. Carson, found a gun in a tree while hunting. It was believed to be the gun of Thomas Crisp, a Unionist who was captured there. In 1862, J. H. Barnhill grew a cantaloupe that weighed 40 pounds. The story of the Old Brick Store in Greenville is given, being a base for Confederate Officers. The Civil War tale of Miss Rutha Dennis, sister of Skilton Dennis, who walked to a Virginia Hospital to tend to the wounds of her brother. And lastly, the funny tale of a boat of 400 Yankee prisoners which stopped at Taft’s Landing. The prisoners were allowed to bathe and they stirred up tar that covered the bottom of the river.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , May 13-26 1987, p6-7, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865