Record #:

22804

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

Kammerer relates a story from 1925 as told by Lucy Cherry Crisp, a noted writer from Falkland. Crisp interviewed Aleck Corbett, an ex-slave from Falkland, who recalled several interesting stories about Pitt County before and directly after the Civil War. One of these stories describes Tom Dupree, a slave owner who killed a Yankee soldier who was plundering his stables. Terrified, Dupree fled and lived in a cave the size of a large bed quilt, on a creek near his house for several months. Corbett said the cave still existed in 1925.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Apr 13-26 1994, p6

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History