A friend once commented to me that she was tired of having fuzzing knowledge about things; she said she wanted to know what was what, to call things by name. I thought of her and felt the same way when I came upon this little chapel in Kinston, North Carolina, the other day.
From August 5, 2012
So I stopped by and read the signs. This little chapel, I learned, was the site of the Confederate's last line of defense in the Battle of Kinston December 13 - 14, 1862. Union General John G. Foster's division was working on cutting off General Robert E. Lee's supply lines from Wilmington.
From August 5, 2012
The church on this site at the time was part of the Confederate's defense and is referred to in journals of the time as Harriet's Chapel. It was used as a hospital during the battle. This church actually came from about eight miles away but was moved in 2010 as an interpretive tool. (This I find just a bit confusing. "The church that is sitting here is not the church that was sitting here that was very important....") On both sides of this important road are two tobacco warehouses.
From August 5, 2012
From August 5, 2012
/center> At the corner are the Hardees and the gas station and the hotel....The Civil War peeking over the shoulder of the chain restaurants and gas stations rubbing against the mainstays of the economy around here--corn, tobacco, seafood--comprise the 21st century world we're educating our kids for. The same world often keeps some of them out of school in the early weeks because they have to work on the boat or in the fields.
From July 9, 2012
It's good to know where we are. No more fuzzy knowledge about who we are and where. 

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