Civil War
ALFRED M. SCALES 1827-1892
Governor, 1885-1889, Confederate general, state legislator, and Congressman. Birthplace stood 3 1/2 mi. E.
J-45Rockingham County
Where it stands. NC 87 at SR 2594 (Holiday Loop) southeast of Reidsville
Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa, considering them (and their observer) curiously enough to make the reader protest, “That were to consider it too curiously.”