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Civil War

FALL OF RALEIGH

Commissioners of North Carolina's capital met officers of Sherman's army near this spot, on April 13, 1865, and surrendered the city.

H-29Wake County

Where it stands. Blount Street at City Farm Road in Raleigh

The Civil War
This is your country as well as anybody else's country. This country is founded upon the principle of equality. He that is meritorious and virtuous, intellectual and well informed, must stand highest, without regard to color.
Andrew JohnsonTo Union soldiers (1865), as quoted in Andrew Johnson: A Profile (1969), "Johnson and the Negro", by Lawanda Cox and John H. Cox; edited by Eric L. McKitrick, Hill & Wang, New York pp. 141.Born in Raleigh, 1 mi from here. Carolina Quotes record

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  4. H-32SHAW UNIVERSITY0.9 mi
  5. H-8GOVERNOR'S PALACE0.9 mi
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