Thirty caches are located in five different regions throughout NC. Instructions for sending the documentation are in the passport. Once all five regions are completed, you have earned a special NC Civil War trackable geocoin. Mail the passport to the address inside the passport – then your passport will be returned with your unique coin.
All of the containers are the same - camouflaged 6 inch PVC tubes - the code word you need for your passport is inside the container on a laminated card and also taped on the container that holds the log sheet. Date your logbook and add your code word in the numbered area for the cache. As the containers may become over tightened, carry a TOTT to ease the opening process.
Passports will be available at the event, some Civil War Museums in NC, and via mail if you send me you address or you can download your passport here.
Departing Averasboro:
After the delay of his army’s Left Wing at the Battle of Averasboro, Gen. William T. Sherman marched most of it past this point en route to Goldsboro. He sent some of the troops in pursuit of the Confeder-ates to maintain the appearance of moving toward Raleigh. Sherman’s wagons carried 500 Union wounded, and part of his force crossed the flooded Black River one mile west of here. Early in the morning of March 19, 1865, Sherman and his staff departed the Left Wing to join Gen. Oliver O. Howard’s Right Wing between Bentonville and Goldsboro. Gen.William J.Hardee’s com-mand, meanwhile, had withdrawn through Averasboro and east of the Black River into Johnston County.