NC: “General Hoke at Duplin Roads”: Sunny and 53 degrees – perfect reenactment weather!

NC War Between the States Sesquicentennial: “General Hoke at Duplin Roads”

Saturday, 7 March, Noon to 9PM – Historic Wallace Railroad Depot, Wallace, NC.

General Admission: $5 per person.

Hourly Artillery Firing, Infantry Drill and Musket Firing, Lectures, Field Hospital & Surgeon, 

Hoke – Gabriel Boney Living History, Huckleberry Brothers Period Music, Food Vendor.

Visitor Photo’s with Reenactors Encouraged –  Visitor Period Dress is Encouraged!

Narrated Hayrides of Historic Rockfish Creek Site Pass by Troop Pickets -- $5 per person.

Candlelight Tours of the Encampment and Depot – 6:30PM to 9PM -- $10 per person.

Plan to attend author Keith Jone’s lecture, “The 1865 Prisoner Exchange” which will discuss the nearly 10,000 Northern men passing through Gen. Hoke’s lines to enemy lines at the NE Cape Fear River. Though initially refused by the enemy, Hoke’s pleas for humanity to enemy commanders obtained a special cartel to effect the exchange of prisoners no better fed than Hoke’s men.

Also discussed with be Grant and Lincoln’s policy which allowed Northern prisoners to languish and die in Southern prisons as medicine and food were blockaded or destroyed by Northern armies. And a higher percentage of Southern men died in Northern prisons than the reverse, and despite the ready access to medicines and plentiful food in the North.  

For more information, please email bernhard1848@gmail.com.