08 NC CWGT Regulator's Field 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. 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.

Most of the containers are the same - camouflaged 6 inch PVC tubes - due to the location this one is an M&M tube -  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.

Regulator's Field

Confederate Gen. William J. Hardee led Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s southern column of the Army of Tennessee through Alamance County on April 15, 1865, marching west away from Union Gen. William Capt. William E. Stoney, assistant adjutant general of Hagood’s South Carolina Brigade, recorded in the brigade diary, “Tonight, Colonel [Charles H.] Olmstead, of the First Georgia Regiment, tells me positively that General Lee has surren-dered. Great God! Can it be true? I have never for a moment doubted the ultimate success of our cause. I cannot believe it.” This ground, where Hardee’s men received the historic news, was a renowned local landmark. In April four years earlier, local Union-ists planned a flag rally at the old The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the March to the Sea. Sherman’s objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia to crush Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Scattered Confederate forces consolidated in North Carolina, the Confederacy’s logistical lifeline, where Sherman defeated Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s last-ditch attack at Bentonville. After Sherman was reinforced at Goldsboro late in March, Johnston saw the futility of further resistance and surrendered at Bennett Place near Durham on April 26, ending the Civil War in the East.