Thirty caches are located in five different regions throughout NC. Instructions for sending the documentation are in the passport. Once all five regions are completed, you have earned a special NC Civil War trackable geocoin. Mail the passport to the address inside the passport – then your passport will be returned with your unique coin.
All of the containers are the same - camouflaged 6 inch PVC tubes - the code word you need for your passport is inside the container on a laminated card and also taped on the container that holds the log sheet. Date your logbook and add your code word in the numbered area for the cache. As the containers may become over tightened, carry a TOTT to ease the opening process.
Passports will be available at the event, some Civil War Museums in NC, and via mail if you send me you address or you can download your passport here.
"Least We Forget":
This site's significance to the Civil War was that this is a mass grave where approximately 164 Confederate Soldiers who died at Wayside Hospital #9 are buried. This was a small, wooden Methodist chapel that was outfitted as a hospital from 1861-62.
There is a large stone marker on site, purchased by the Roanoke Rapids Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy listing the soldiers' names. The cemetery is surrounded by breastworks built to protect Weldon and the four major railroads that ran through the town. This was also known as Camp Weldon manned by the Confederates.
One of these railroads was the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, the longest railroad in the world at that time and also known as the Lifeline of the Confederacy. You can still see the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad trestle over the Roanoke River, which is a site on the North Carolina Civil War Trail. These railroads, the Wilmington and Weldon, the Raleigh and Gaston, the Seaboard and Roanoke and the Petersburg Railroad were the main arteries for transportation of both troops and provisions from the South to Richmond and the Army of Northern Virginia.