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Stoneman's Raid

Stoneman's Raid is a North Carolina historical marker in Wilkes County, dedicated 1940.

NC 268 (East Main Street) in Wilkesboro

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On a raid through western North Carolina Gen. Stoneman's U.S. cavalry occupied Wilkesboro, March 29, 1865.

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Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1847 · Virginia (H. S. Tanner, 1847) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1889 · Wilkesboro, North Carolina (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1891 · Wilkesboro, North Carolina (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1895 · Gen. map VII. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Gen. map VII, 1895, covering the location of Stoneman's Raid, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Gen. map VII, 1895, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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This marker is part of the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, run by the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources jointly with the N.C. Department of Transportation. Marker texts and locations are the program's own, as the Department publishes them.

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On the National Register nearby

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