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Phillip's Crossroads, Jones County, N.C.
March 4, 1865
On March 4, 1865, the 9th Michigan Cavalry Regiment was noted as being in Phillip’s Crossroads, North Carolina, and engaging in a skirmish (Turner 3-4).
Phillip’s Crossroads lies in Jones County in eastern North Carolina. Depending on the route taken, the distance between Phillip’s Crossroads and the regiment’s last noted movement in Columbia, South Carolina is 250+ miles (Google Maps).
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"Men have worshipped war 'till it has cost a million times more than the whole world is worth, pored out the best blood, and crushed the fairest forms the God has ever created. Deck it as you will, war is - "Hell." ... The war side of war could never have called me to the field. All through and through, thought and act, body and soul - I hate it... Only the desire to soften some of its hardships and allay some of its miseries ever induced me, and I presume all other women who have taken similar steps, to dare its pestistilent and unholy breath."
-Clara Barton, American nurse during the Civil War and founder of the Red Cross
Unidentified soldier in Union uniform and wife. [United States, between 1861 and 1865] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress.
References
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Epler, Percy H. Clara Barton: “Angel of the Battlefield.” The Macmillian Company,
1915, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hc2uks&view=1up&seq=9.
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Google Maps, Google, www.google.com/maps/.
“North Carolina Civil War Battles.” National Park Service, U.S. Department of the
Interior, https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/northcarolina.htm.
Turner, Assistant Adjutant General, Col.George H., editor. “Ninth Cavalry.” Record of
Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War (1861-1865), vol. 39, Senate and
House of Representatives of the Michigan Legislature,
https://michiganology.org/uncategorized/IO_e7cddf59-87fb-4fd7-bf14-