Civil War Walking Tour
City of Raleigh Museum (COR)
Raleigh City Museum
Saturday, April 15th 10am
Tours begin at the historic Briggs Hardware and lasts approximately 1 hour. The tour is free. Please call 919-996-2220 for more information.
Retreating Confederate soldiers, freed slaves, and an invading Union army all made Raleigh a city balancing on the edge of destruction and salvation in the final days of America"s bloody Civil War. The City of Raleigh Museum invites you to explore this rapidly changing world of 1865 through a special walking tour of Downtown Raleigh. Join COR Museum Director, Ernest Dollar, as he uses letters, diaries, and photographs to reveal life in Raleigh the end of the Civil War. The tour will be on the 152nd anniversary of the Federal occupation of the City.
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