Record #:

21485

Author(s):

Jordan, Weymouth T., Jr.; Thomas, Gerald W.

Abstract:

The four-day siege and capture of the federal post at Plymouth, North Carolina, on 20 April 1864, spawned stories afterward of the murder of captured \"Buffaloes\" (white North Carolina Unionists) and blacks. Because of the disputed, contradictory, and inconclusive nature of the evidence, historians' views of events have differed. A review of a more comprehensive collection of evidence suggests that, despite arguments to the contrary, there was a massacre that took the lives of approximately fifty of the nearly 4,500 military and civilian persons in Plymouth on 20 April.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 72 Issue 2, April 1995, p125-197, il, por, map, f

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Massacre, Plymouth, N.C.