Aug 3, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
Don’t Allow Any Republicans to Be Buried in My Burying Ground The two oldest cemeteries in Cashiers are called the Lower Zachary Cemetery and the Upper Zachary Cemetery. They are located on the same road, not very far apart. The oldest cemetery is the Lower Zachary...
Aug 3, 2016 | Jackson, Union affiliation
A Teenager Guided Union Officers through the Mountains of Western North Carolina Union Capt. Mark M. Bassett, a member of Company E, 53rd Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, had been captured by the Confederates during the siege of Vicksburg in the summer of 1863....
Aug 3, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
Martha Caroline Potts Pierson’s Experience with ‘Kirk’s Raiders’ Born in 1858, Martha Caroline, the daughter of Allen Potts and Susan Wade Potts, lived in the Yellow Mountain area of North Carolina. Martha was just about 5 years old when Yankee...
Aug 3, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
Written by Jane Gibson Nardy; edited by Cheri Todd Molter From April 186l through the spring of 1865, the Civil War exacted a heavy toll on the citizens of Cashiers Valley. The first part of the war saw sons, husbands and fathers joining the Confederacy and marching...
Aug 3, 2016 | Jackson, Union affiliation
Col. George Washington Kirk: That ‘Scalawag, Bushwhacker Man’ A few decades ago, I was asked by an elderly cousin if I knew anything about the ‘scalawag, bushwhacker man named Kirk’ who terrorized the Cashiers Valley area during the Civil War....
