Attack On Washington
Inscription
Town seized by Union troops, Mar. 1862. Efforts to recapture it failed in 1862 & 1863. Union Army withdrew in Apr. 1864.
Location
AddressWest Main Street in Washington near Van Norden
CityWashington
CountyBeaufort
StateNorth Carolina
Coordinates35.544050, -77.059480
Sources
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Dr. Susan Dimock
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Native of Washington, Zurich graduate, head of a Boston hospital, 1st woman member N.C. Medical Society, 1872.
Fort Hill
Site of Confederate batteries on Pamlico River which enabled Gen. D. H. Hill's forces to besiege Washington in spring of 1863.
First Post Road
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The road from New England to Charleston, over which mail was first carried regularly in North Carolina, 1738-39, passed near this spot.
Matthew Rowan
Bath, NC
Acting governor, 1753-54.
Daniel G. Fowle
Washington, NC
Governor, 1889-91, state Adjutant General, 1863, Confederate officer, superior court judge, state legislator.