Had to go check to see if everyone had unsubscribed from the lists considering none of you had anything to say for two weeks. Rose told me that MSN has been down nationwide for a couple of days in the event some of you have not received answers to your emails. Suppose to be back up today. Am stealing Brenda's report on the Symposium >Reply-To: "Brenda Stocks" <bstocks@coxnc.rr.com> >From: "Brenda Stocks" <bstocks@coxnc.rr.com> >Several of our Greenville PCFR members attended the Civil War Symposium In >Kinston this weekend. This was sponsored by the Lenoir County Historical >Society and they certainly did a wonderful job. On Friday night we had >dinner at the Council of the Arts' building and a presentation on the >memoirs, drawings, maps and watercolors of Robert Knox Sneden, private in >the Union Army. His writings and art work are featured in the book Eye Of >The Storm: A Civil War Odyssey.These works are in a touring exhibition >sponsored by the Virginia Historical Society. The speakers on Saturday >discussed the battle of Wyse Fork, the role of black soldiers in the Civil >War, hunting for Civil War Relics in the Kinston area, and the hanging in >Kinston of 22 soldiers from the First and Second Union Volunteers of NC. >These 22 men were deserters from the Confederate Army and were captured at >New Bern by Gen. Pickett. We also enjoyed a wonderful lunch at the Broken >Eagle Restaurant in Kinston. We had a good group from the lists - from Greenville, Raleigh, Goldsboro, Williamston and even Md - did not know Mary Jane and her husband were coming until we saw them AFTER lunch. Fun to see so many and put a name to a face. Guy forgot my piece of pecan pie his sister sent to me - accused him of eating it. Tracy and I got a personal tour of the breatworks on our Simmons ancestral land and some cemeteries - one of which is not on the LCC list. It is the Jackson cemetery and someone is interested in it but you are not going to learn much at this point. It is in dreadful shape and we really could not get into it. Only got three stones and the John Jackson stone was moved 30 to 40 years ago with some of the others. A large area and tradition says there were CSA dead buried there with no stone. Would not doubt it. Jane, Tracy, and I spent a day (and I went back) in the Hyatt Collection but did not finish. We got LOTS of goodies both historical and genealogical. Tracy and I spent one day at the archives - Ruth, got that LONG Supreme Court Case and a couple of other short ones, one also a Carr one - and one day at ECU. Also learned a little about Southwest Creek in the Woodington area and the upper reaches of the creek along the Neuse Road. Will take awhile to wade through my almost full notebook and get everything typed and posted. Martha