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Civil War Diary Militia Marches to Goldsboro and Gum Swamp
A company memoir recounts the 56th North Carolina Regiment movements from August 1862 marching between Goldsboro Warsaw Magnolia Wilmington and Tarboro to Franklin and Wise's Fork. It notes skirmishes near Hamilton and Gum Swamp, a gunboat engagement on Blackwater River, captures, and a forced march toward Richmond with detailed handouts on personnel and units.
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Goldsboro
Warsaw
Magnolia
Wilmington
Seacoast
Tarboro
Vance
Foster
Hamilton
N. C
Franklin, Va
Sweezy
Blackwater River
Kenansville
M. W. Ransom
Old Topsail Sound
Kinston
Neuse River
Wise’s Fork
Newbern
Gum Swamp
Lutterloh
E. J. Hale
Fayetteville Observer
Harrill
Faison
North Carolina
Gum, Swamp
Richmond
James River
Petersburg
Drewry’s Bluff
Halfway House
Seven Pines
White House
Bottom’s Bridge
York River
Weldon
N.C
Garysburg
Halifax
Wilkes County
Wilkes
Ashe, Alleghany
Randolph Counties
Newber
Franklin
Suffolk
Plymouth
Ransom