28 NC CWGT Snow Camp Mystery 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.

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.

Snow Camp

After a wet march and the loss of several soldiers drowned at river crossings, the lead elements of Hardee’s column bivouacked here in the mud. Adding to the misery was the confirmation of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House on April 9. Rumors of catastrophe in Virginia had spread while the column bivouacked the previous night in Chapel Hill on the grounds of the University of North Carolina. Here, however, the offi-cers and men got irrefutable proof that the rumors were true: parolees from the Army of Northern Virginia going home from Appomattox. Regulator Battlefield at Alamance Creek, but the firing on Fort Sumter and President Abraham Lincoln’s call for troops derailed its symbolic Army marching in the rain.

Special Thanks to Red Wolf Team for archiving GCMECK to make room for this placement!

You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.