98 NC CWGT New Bern Battlefield Traditional Cache

150 Geocaches have been hidden to guide your exploration of NC as you traverse highways and by-ways across the state as you learn from those fighting and those keeping the home fires burning during the Civil War, 1861 - 1865. 

Thirty caches are located in five different regions throughout NC. Completing a region will earn a collectible item that will represent the region. 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 containersmay 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.

Battle of New Bern Marker (CC-2) located at the New Bern Battlefield Park (owned by the New Bern Historical Society) located off US 70 East and Taberna Way just outside of New Bern The Croatan Earthwork, an extensive fortification not used during the battle, can be seen 6 3/10 miles southeast of this highway. Here, extensive earthworks can be seen on both sides of the highway in a direct line with this marker. Troops engaged in the Battle of New Bern: Union: Major General Ambrose E. Burnside – commanding Division; Brigadier General John G. Parke’s Brigade; 4th and 5th R.I. Inf.; 8th and 11th Conn. Inf.; Brigadier General Jesse L. Reno’s Brigade; 21st Mass., 51st N.Y., 9th N.J., and 51st Pa. Inf.; Brigadier General John G. Foster’s Brigade; 23rd 24th, 25th, and 27th Mass. and 10th Conn. Inf. Confederate: Brigadier General Lawrence O’B. Branch – commanding Brigade; 7th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 33rd, 35th, and 37th N.C. Inf.; 19th N.C. Regt. (1st Cavalry); Captain Thomas H. Brem’s and Captain A. C. Latham’s artillery batteries. Confederates in Fort Thompson: Captain John N. Whitford’s and Captain W. A. Herring’s artillery companies. (The men in the other Confederate forts did not directly participate in the battle.)

Permission to hide this cache was received by Lynn Harakal - Director of New Bern Historical Society