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Freedom Trail (Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, NC)

– Civil War Series – In the early stages of the Civil War in 1862, Union forces quickly seized the Outer Banks of North Carolina during the so-called Burnside Expedition, which led to the creation of a Freedmen’s Colony on … Continue reading

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