The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-10-04

OS "AA 49, @iAS SsSiiko oC-
10 scribed, detailed ac-
counts of their personal
- experiences and obser-
,atiors. Among them was an account
s+onoman's Raid into Western
North Carolina, in the spring of
1865. in a letter written to her by Mr..
. T. Paall of Lenoir. 1t is a plain,
sirnIf. u~nvarnished and uncolored
story If one of the most interesting
orisodes Of the Civil War in North
Carolina The Review is in
being able 10 present it, in three in
sraIImruts, to its readers. The first
nresrntS Il general o Of the
raid the other two give in thrilling
details "Incidents of the Raid which
occurred at Boone. W~ilkesboro, Win
ston-SaIem. Mocksville, Salisbury,
.statesvllle, Lenoir. on the road to
Norgantou. and at Pleasant Garden.
I'm his letter to Mrs. Spencer Mr.
Lenoir. n. C.
Dear Madam:
In compliance with your request. /
send you an account of ~Stoneman's
Cavalry Raid through Western North
Carolina.
General View of the Raid.
A Federal Cavalry force under Gen
era. Stoneman entered the western
borders Of North Carolina on the 26th
Of March, 1865. 1t was probably six
thousand strong. Rumor increased it
to ten. fifteen and thirty thousand,
and in one instance to sixty thousand.
He entered the State by the turn
pix leading from Tay1orsville, Ten
rt-gas -h-al1Uh ITatonro oo,,nfy 10
Deep-Sup in the Blue Ridge.
At Boone. the county seat of Wa
tauga. the column divide General
Stoneman with one division went di-
rect 10 W~ilkeSbOro. The other di-
vision under General Gillian crossed
tn EIue Ridge at Blowing Rock and
Went to Patterson in Caldwell county
-aenoe to W~ilkesboro. Boone was
occupied on the 26th of March and
vas Evacuated on the 9th. Patterson
Was occupied on the 9th. and evacu-
ated Oh the 18th. Wilkesboro was oc-
cGpIec on the 18th. Here the column
"dS united and on the 31st of March
M'Fe-' in the direction of Mount Airy
III NuFTT county, via J~onesville and
Rockford.
Alter leaving Mount Airy, the pub
III eEtIt"ment was Gained with the
thought that the invaders had left to
return no more. OF their movements
from NlIkesboro into Virginia, ] am
,"l accurately informed; but on the
I'lh ~ llth Of April they suddenly
appeared IN Winston and Salem, ap-
~p''a'hlns probably from Patrick
county. Va. through Stokes, N. c. -.
inc 11th of April, most of the
"'I,1~ attachments sent to cut the
central Railroad, returned to
.a',1i and the column moved rapidly !
- - M'oHSEllIe in DaVie county, and !,
oleA@r - Salisbury. Mecksville was :
~ @4Pi"d only as the column was /,
@~aI"oury was attacked about day :
on the 18th, was captured about
- " ''ock, after a spirited defence, on ,
same morning, and was evacuated
g. IN" afternoon OF the 18th. From :
S"ury the columns moved to !
me which was on the !,
u the 18th. Thence it moved =
90 me l4th to ~Taylorsville, Alexander +
hence to Lenoir, Caldwell
Ar 'pfSFllIe was occupied on the b
i- ana evacuated on the 18th. Lee l.
no was evacuated on the 18th, hav- a
'''h couple on the 18th. It 0
iolt1 from Morganton on the 18th
-nr%@'n5 through Marion, on the 18th s
80, Us ASheville. On the goth it t,
he ne neg the Blue Ridge and finding n
PaSses INSTRUCTED by Genl. Martin, s
"@o only a few hundred men ca is
p Unknown to the raiders) it moved F
Il The direction Of Rutherfordton ar s
,IoIhg a negro regiment through Il
@n'''y county. =
~ Ivy afterwards met at Asheyille o
aid SWINE day unknown to me. The p
or ~ "S Virtually terminated soon af- u
I'm as Genl. Lee had surrend- Fl
nan t'iu Generals Johnston and Sher-
W.bji'ao concluded an Armistice. n
.orh 'i'e the raiders were in the neigh c
ger +'ou Of Wilkesboro. detachments W
en f. = INTO the part of Ire
'GI44nng Creek. = -
row n~uckshoals, Eagle Mills, and n
uantit#i tories We're burned with large fl
ono 1dIes of cotton. Eagle Mills ri
' eleht hundred bales. The m