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**Vacation
time is here again. My next post will be Monday, March 28TH**
This
view of the Railroad Cut through the bars of the bridge is one of my current
favorites. Just look at the greenery . . . this is more how the battlefield
would have appeared in July 1863, though perhaps a bit muddier considering the
frequent showers that plagued the region. If you can suspend reality just a
little bit and erase the bridge in your mind, you can picture soldiers in blue
and gray contesting for this ground, grappling on the tracks.
**HONORED TODAY**
PVT. ASHLEY BUSTER TEW
Co. E, 20TH North
Carolina Infantry
Born 1835 --- Died July
03, 1863 at 28
Unlike
many of his comrades, Pvt. Tew wasn’t killed during the ambush upon Iverson’s
North Carolina brigade, instead dying two days later as a prisoner of war. He
had enlisted in May 1861 and was married to Charity. They had one child,
Sylvester, who was 4 when his father died, while another child, Ashley (some
records list this child as a son, while others say it was a daughter with the
middle name of Elizabeth) was born September 1863. Pvt. Tew was buried at
Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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