North Carolina sent more people to the war than any other state, and on both sides. Important raids and battles happened there, but not near Cold Mountain. It was too remote to fight over.
Cold Mountain
Since Tex posted that trailer, with its atrocious Hollywood attempts at Southern accents, I thought I should point out that I was at Cold Mountain just the other day. Here it is:
North Carolina sent more people to the war than any other state, and on both sides. Important raids and battles happened there, but not near Cold Mountain. It was too remote to fight over.
North Carolina sent more people to the war than any other state, and on both sides. Important raids and battles happened there, but not near Cold Mountain. It was too remote to fight over.
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NoT a bad place to be, so remote that no one wants to fight over it- my old neighbor, preparing to bail out from congestion (at that time there was another house being built on our street bringing the total to five or six) triumphantly made a classic statement-
"I am going to move to a place so depressed it will never recover"!
An aside-- The Old Ways live on.
https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/national-news/victim-uses-battle-axe-to-fend-off-home-invader/
If I remember the quote Ben Rumson said something like, “There’s two kinds of people: them going somewhere and them going nowhere. I’m a long time citizen of nowhere.”
BTW- Happy Birthday, Marines! GIrenes, Jarheads, Devil Dogs and
especially Professionals, 2/1.
True! Happy birthday.
Happy Birthday, indeed. I was a Corpsman, and I became one solely to be attached to the Marine Corps. I was born on a Marine base, while my Father was in Vietnam.
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