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.
Kenansville Armory:
Throughout the Civil War, North Carolina furnished much of the material that the Confederate armies needed to sustain field operations. Here in Kenansville, the Confederate States Armory produced military supplies ranging from swords to knapsacks. Blockade runners smuggled contraband goods that were then funneled to Virginia (heart of the war’s Eastern The-atre) via the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad and the Petersburg Rail-road. Disrupting the rail line became a major Union objective. On July 4, 1863, U.S. cavalry struck the Confederate States Armory here. Lt. Col. George W. Lewis, leading 640 men of the 3rd New York Caval-ry to destroy Wilmington and Weldon Railroad track, sent a battalion to The blockade runner Robert E. Lee, photographed about 1864, penetrated the coastal blockade more than 20 times before being captured trying to reach Wilmington, N.C., in Nov. 1863. Converted to USS Fort Donelson, it joined the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron and helped capture Fort Fisher. – Library of Congress Kenansville under Maj. Ferris Jacobs, Jr. According to Lewis’ after-action report, Jacobs arrived here after dark, “surprised and completely dispersed a company of cavalry, commanded by Captain [William K.] Lane [Co. F, 7th N.C. Cavalry], taking all their transportation, nearly all their horses and equip-ments and arms, and 4 or 5 prisoners.” Lewis and the rest of the regiment then joined Jacobs, and together they burned the armory, “with a large quan-tity of sabers, saber bayonets, knives, … boiler, all the tools, saddles, and all the stock.” The New Yorkers bivouacked here, then continued their raid the next day. Despite the destruction, owner Louis Froelich, “sword maker for the Confederacy,” rebuilt the armory and soon was back in operation. North Carolina supplied much of the clothing, shoes, hats, and blankets used by Confederate soldiers such as these captured at Gettysburg, Pa. – Library of Congress “An armory was destroyed which contained some 2,500 sabers and large quantities of saber bayonets, bowie knives, and other small-arms, a steam-engine and implements for man-ufacturing arms. A store-house … a manufactory of knapsacks, and some commissary store-houses were burned.” – Gen. John G. Foster, July 7, 1863