One hundred fifty years ago, this country was in the throes of the Civil War. On September 6, 1862, the Confederate army made its first attempt to recapture a town that was under Union control. That town was Washington, N.C.
Learn more about this early morning surprise attack made by Confederate troops in an article from the University of North Carolina Press’s Encyclopedia of North Carolina, reprinted in NCpedia.
Link: http://ncpedia.org/washington-nc-attack
