Salisbury Prison supply depot
Depot, Salisbury, North Carolina.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Depot
- Where
- Salisbury, North Carolina
- Years
- 1865
- Today
- Ruins
SALISBURY PRISON DEPOT
After its prisoners were moved out in February 1865, the emptied prison complex served as a Confederate supply depot. Stoneman reached Salisbury in April 1865 and ordered the prison structures burned. Federal forces also burned the railroad depot.
Then
After the prisoners were moved out in February 1865, the emptied prison complex was used as a Confederate supply depot.
Stoneman reached Salisbury in April 1865 and ordered the prison structures burned. Federal forces also burned the railroad depot at Salisbury.
Now
Ruins
One house on Bank Street, believed to be a guardhouse, survives from the prison buildings.
Lines owned by Norfolk Southern run through Salisbury today.
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