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about the runaways.HokeContinued from front pagesouth to Andersonville prison in Georgia.Bearss said Hoke’s most important actions came June 1-2, 1864 at the Battle of Cold Harbor when Hoke stopped the Union’s Gen. Ulysses S. Grant from winning a great victory and taking Richmond. In a face-to-face meeting after the war; Grant admitted that Hokehad administered *!the worst*drubbing I ever got,” at Cold Harbor.Bearrs said it is not confirmed, but there was a rumor that Hoke was picked as Lee’s successor should anything ever happen to the commander.After the war, Hoke returned home and became a prominent businessman,president of North Carolina Insurance Co., Cranberry Iron Works and state director of the North Carolina Railroad. Hoke County is named after him. There is a historical marker in his honor on U.S. 70.Hoke met his future wife in 1863, and they married in 1872 and had six children.Hoke died in 1912 and was buried with full military honors in Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh.The subject was Hoke, but Bearss, 86, was the star.“He’s very knowlede-gable, a Civil War icon,” said H. Shindle, who is onthe Board of Trustees at the■Virginia War Museum in Newport News. “He’s worth the trip.”“I love him,” said Weeks Worsley of Tarboro. He’s amzing. He paints a picture ” Vivian Joyner, president of the North Carlina Civil War Roundtable that meets in Burlington, made the tripfrom New Hill.“He never gives the same talk,” she said. “Nobody is as smart as he is.”Bearss was scheduled to speak in Raleigh Saturday, in Burlington Saturday night and in New Bern on Sunday. He toured the EdgecombeCounty Veterans Museum earlier Friday.The Pender Roundtable usually meets the fourth Thursday of the month at Gardner’s restaurant in Rocky Mount.The group’s next meeting is Feb. 25 when East Carolina University professor Donald Collins will talk about Kinston.
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Tarboro Daily Southerner
Tarboro, North Carolina, US
Mon, Jan 18, 2010
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