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.
Clayton, Flag of Truce:
As Union Gen. William T. Sherman's army closed in on Raleigh along the North Carolina Railroad from Goldsboro, Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's forces prepared to evacuate the capital and retreat west. On April 12, 1865, two blocks in front of you, a train pulled into the station at 7 P.M. after a harrowing journey from Raleigh that began at 10 A.M. It carried two former North Carolina governors, William A. Graham and David L. Swain, with a letter from Gov. Zebulon B. Vance to Sherman requesting a meeting to discuss peace terms.
The train had departed Raleigh with a locomotive pulling a tender and a single coach flying a white flag of truce. Johnston, learning of the peace mission, had Gen. Wade Hampton stop the train and reverse it outside the city. Soon, however, there were "bullets whizzing through the pines" as the train rolled between skirmish lines, and then Federal cavalrymen surrounded it. Union Gen. H. Judson Kilpatrick detained the commissioners for several hours, then sent them on to Sherman, who was headquartered here in present-day Clayton. Federal soldiers cheered the flag of truce, hoping it meant the end of hostilities. Graham and Swain emerged from the train "dreadfully excited at the dangers through which they had passed." Sherman accepted Vance's letter, agreed to safeguard the state government and spare the city, and gave them dinner. He wrote the governor and promised all the aid "in my power to contribute to the end you aim to reach, the termination of the existing war."
Graham and Swain returned to Raleigh the next day. Railroad hand Bob Harris rode atop the coach holding a persimmon branch with the flag of truce. Raleigh was safe.