As he looked as Captain Chapman in 1863

Lt. Colonel
William Henry Chapman
Society

Greensboro, N.C.

 

 Pictures from our Goldsborough Bridge Trip, October 17, 2009

 

The photo on the left, of course, was our first stop. No field trip is complete without the Q and it had been almost four hours since breakfast.

Below are photos from the Goldsborough Bridge Battlefield and Willowdale Cemetery.

Click on each of the thumbnails below for more from Goldsboro . . . .

Details of Foster's raid . . . standing here you will look out over the field and monument above. Click here for a larger, more readable image.
The front of the monument commemorating the Battle of Goldsborough Bridge. Here is a larger, readable image of the front of the monument.
The back of the monument commemorating the battle. And a larger image of the back of the monument.
  Obviously, this sign was either not present or was ignored in 1862. The advance of the 17th Massachusetts along the railroad . . . Readable image of the 17th's advance . . .

Below, the Union assault on the bridge . . .

The assault marker . . . . . . and a larger image. The bridge today.
Down the embankment to the creek and the river.
Below, some of the original earthworks at the battlefield . . .

The Confederate counterattack . . .

The Confederate Monument in Goldsboro's Willowdale Cemetery marks the site of 800 Confederate dead. For a listing of the names click here.

Willowdale is also the site of the grave of Pvt. Jared K. White of  the 8th Texas Cavalry, Terry's Texas Rangers, "killed in the service of the C.S.A." Click here to read more about Private White.

The Texas flag flies above Pvt. Whites grave. The Confederate Cross of Honor at Pvt. Whites grave.

 

 

The headstone of Pvt. Jared K. White.

  Photos above courtesy of R. Loman and E. Martin

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