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The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. ISBN 0-8078-1968-9. Kennedy, Frances H., ed. The Civil War Battlefield Guide. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998. ISBN 0-395-74012-6. Nevin, David, and the Editors of Time-Life Books. The Road to Shiloh: Early Battles in the West ...
Belmont Historic District is a national historic district located at Belmont, Gaston County, North Carolina. It encompasses 264 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing structures in the central business district and adjacent residential areas of Belmont.
The rail line was protected by 1,000–1,600 Confederate troops stationed in Fort York atop a bluff on the opposite side of the river. Stoneman dispatched artillery to Miller's troops but they were unable to cross the river and after 5.5 hours they withdrew towards Salisbury, dismantling the railway track on the Rowan side of the river but ...
During the War of 1812, British forces captured Detroit and Elijah Brush and other militia officers were taken prisoner. [2] He was shipped to Toronto , but his brother-in-law, a British officer, procured his release, and Brush returned to Detroit in late 1813 [ 5 ] when American troops retook the city.
The French Broad River rises above its banks in the River Arts District on Sept. 26 in Asheville, N.C. Asheville, with a population of 95,000 residents, is about 140 miles west of Charlotte.
Detroit City Is the Place to Be (1st ed.). New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 978-0-8050-9229-5. Woodford, Arthur M (2001). This Is Detroit, 1701-2001. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 9780814329146. Sugrue, Thomas J (2005). The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit.
A satellite view shows North Toe River and a market, in Spruce Pine, N.C., on Feb. 3 and after Hurricane Helene on Oct. 2. (Maxar Technologies via Reuters)
Heartbreaking images show how a picturesque North Carolina mountain village was all but wiped off the map by Hurricane Helene — with one local mourning, “What was once a town is now a river.”