Salisbury Civil War Sites Driving Tour
Photos
and text for the popular driving tour which includes the former Salisbury Prison Grounds,
National Cemetery and other points of interest. |
United States National Cemetery
Monuments and civil war information
202 Government Road, Salisbury NC
Photo is the entrance to the cemetery - large cast iron gates.
Salisbury Civil war prisoners are buried in 18 trenches 240 feet in length with
estimates placing the number in the trenches at 11,700¹ and the
Individual graves of another 412 prisoners of which 283 are unknown.
¹ Report by COL. Oscar Mack, August 18, 1871 |
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Confederate Monument
Located at 200 block of West Innes St.
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson came to the dedication by the United
Daughters of the Confederacy on Confederate Memorial day May 10, 1908. The monument was
crafted in bronze in Belgium at a cost of $10,000. Christian Reid, whose real name was
Frances Tieran Fisher, wrote and presented a play called Under The Southern Cross
to raise money for it. She later wrote Land of the Sky where Asheville got its
nickname. Her poem Gloria Victus exemplifies the feelings of many "home
folks" at the time after ‘the war’. |
Salisbury Prison Information
Drawings and etchings of the compound, property plat
maps, pictures from Harper's Weekly c 1862 and much more. |
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Salisbury Confederate Prison Symposium |
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