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“STONEMAN’S RAID, 1865” TO BE TOPIC FOR AUTHOR

Contact: RoBurchette@gtcc.edu (Released 9/19/11)

JAMESTOWN-Chris Hartley will be talking about his book, "Stoneman's Raid, 1865," at 1 p.m. Thursday (Sept. 22) in the auditorium of Koury Hospitality Centert Guilford Technical Community College
The event, which is sponsored by the GTCC Communications and Foreign Language Department and the History Club,  is free and open to the public.

Hartley, a Wilkesboro native now living in Pfafftown, details the March 1965 raid by Union Maj. Gen. George Stoneman and 4,000 cavalrymen swept into North Carolina and Virginia during his raids across six states..
Hartley writes: "The raiders swooped through the Piedmont like a cluster of tornados. They destroyed bridges, railroads, telegraph wires and supplies stockpiled for the Confederate Army.

"They occupied Salem, part of (present) Winston-Salem. They stormed Asheboro. They burned the infamous prison in Salisbury. Had they know he was in Greensboro, they might have captured Jefferson Davis, the fleeing president of the Confederacy."
He also talks about the immense destruction brought to local manufacturing, railroads and farms.