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Manly,
Moore County, N.C.
March 10, 1865
Engraving of Charles Manly. Engraving. Retrieved from NCPedia.
On March 10, 1865, the 9th Michigan Cavalry Regiment was noted as being in Solemn Grove, Moore County (Turner 3-4).* Today, the area of Solemn Grove is named Manly; renamed to honor North Carolina Governor Charles Manly (Gannett 198). Depending on the route taken, the distance between Manly and the regiment’s last noted movement in Wadesboro is 56+ miles (Google Maps).
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Although the regiment was not noted as being involved in the March 9 skirmish at Solemn Grove, other units of General Kilpatrick’s cavalry were involved in the skirmish as they prepared for the Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads which would take place on March 10 (Kane and Keeton 90-95). The regiment would have passed through the aftermath of this skirmish on their way to Monroe’s Crossroads on March 10.
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*Solemn Grove is mistyped as “Solemn Grave” on this document (Turner 3-4).
References
Gannett, Henry. The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. 1905,
https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/b258.
Google Maps, Google, www.google.com/maps/.
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Kane, Sharyn, and Richard Keeton. Fiery Dawn: The Civil War Battle At Monroe’s
Crossroads, North Carolina, prepared for the U.S. Army, XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, by the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Southeast Archeological Center, Tallahassee, Florida, 1999. https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/453448.
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“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-
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