Central North Carolina

Last Update: 30/JULY/2026

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Fort Branch (2)
(1862 - 1865), Hamilton
A Confederate fort on the Roanoke River at Rainbow Banks, which may be one of the best preserved star-shaped earthworks east of the Mississippi River. It kept Union gunboats from continuing up the river to the CSA shipyards at Edward's Ferry (north of Scotland Neck) and at Halifax during July 1862. It was evacuated at the end of the war. The restoration efforts hope to make this the only earthwork fort in the South to have all original guns in place (10 were found in the river - only one is missing). Earthworks (still remain) were built nearby several months prior to the fort's construction, but were deemed inadequate. State marker located on NC 125 south of town at Fort Branch Road.

CSA Camp Baker (2) (1st NC Regiment, Junior Reserves; and 2nd NC Regiment, Junior Reserves) (near Butler's Bridge), Camp Pender (1) (17th NC Regiment (1st Organization), and 51st NC Regiment), and Camp Vance (6) (17th NC Regiment (2nd Organization); and 42nd NC Regiment) were located nearby.

Camp Devil's Elbow
(1862), near Murfreesboro
A CSA camp (32nd NC Regiment, Company F).

Camp Rayner
(1860's), near Murfreesboro
A CSA camp.

Camp McCulloch
(1862), near Jackson
A CSA camp (24th NC Regiment).

Boone's Mill Earthworks
(1863), Jackson
A CSA two-gun battery was here. Traces of earthworks may still remain near Boone's Millpond.

Garysburg Civil War Camps
(1861 - 1865), near Garysburg
Confederate camps located in the area were:
Camp Advance (1) (1861), 10th NC Regiment, Company H; 2nd NC Regiment; 7th NC Regiment, Company E.
Camp Anderson (2)
Camp Clarendon (3rd NC Regiment).
Camp Daniel (2) (1864) (1st NC Battalion, Junior Reserves).
Camp Ferebee (1), a cavalry camp.
Camp D.H. Hill (1) (1861 - 1863) (4th NC Regiment; and 42nd NC Regiment). The 62nd Regiment Georgia Cavalry was here from September 1862 to November 1862.
Camp Leventhorpe (1) (38th NC Regiment), located one-half mile north of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad bridge.
Camp Long (1862) (63rd NC Regiment).
Camp Vance (5) (1862 - 1865).
Camp Winslow (1) (41st NC Regiment, Company G; and 5th NC Regiment), originally located across the Roanoke River near Halifax.

Weldon Civil War Camps
(1861 - 1865), Weldon
CSA camps here included:
Camp Floyd (1864) (38th NC Regiment).
Camp Gaillard (1864) (13th NC Battalion, Light Artillery).
Camp Holmes (2) (1861)
Camp Pettigrew (1) (1861)
Camp Ransom (1) (1861)
Camp Robinson (1861 - 1862) (11th NC Regiment).

Camp Macon
(1861), near Macon
A CSA camp (8th NC Regiment) on the southwest side of town, towards Warrenton.

Camp Beauregard (1)
(1861), Ridgeway
A CSA cavalry camp of instruction (9th NC Regiment).

Camp Vance (7)
(1862), Kittrell
A CSA camp (59th NC Regiment, Company A; and 61st NC Regiment, Company I). Possibly (?) the same site as Camp Clark.

Camp Clark
(1861), near Kittrell
A CSA fortified cavalry camp (19th NC Regiment) located about one mile from Kittrell's Springs, one-half mile from the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad.

Camp Royster
(1901), Franklinton
A state National Guard ten-day encampment (August 1901) specially held only for Company F, 3rd Regiment Infantry, which missed the official annual state encampment at Wrightsville Beach (Camp Aycock) held earlier that month.

Civil War Defenses of Raleigh
(1861 - 1865), Raleigh
CSA camps in the area included:
Camp Badger (1) (1861 - 1865)
Camp Boylan (1861 - 1862) (10th NC Regiment, Company E).
Camp Crabtree (1861) (35th NC Regiment), located on the Crabtree Plantation three miles west of town. Also known as Camp Carolina (1862) (22nd NC Regiment, and 26th NC Regiment).
Camp Ellis (1861), located at the State Fairgrounds.
Camp Holmes (1) (1862 - 1865) (1st NC Battalion, Junior Reserves; 2nd NC Battalion, Junior Reserves; 4th NC Battalion, Junior Reserves; 6th NC Battalion, Junior Reserves; 3rd NC Battalion, Senior Reserves; Capt. Jackson Jones' Company; Col. Peter Mallett's Battalion; City Battalion of Raleigh; and Maj. Franz Joseph Hahr's Battalion, Light Duty Men), located at present-day Capital Blvd. and Wake Forest Rd., near Patton Rd..
Camp Mangum, a training camp located at Method, three miles west of downtown along the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad. Many state units were here at various times.
Camp Dan Russell (1), originally CSA General Hospital 13 (Pettigrew Hospital). It became the Confederate Soldiers Home after Union occupation during Reconstruction (Russell Barracks (April 1865 - April 1877)).
Camp Vance (8) (1863)
Camp Winslow (2)
Camp Wyatt (2)

Confederate earthworks were once located around the city in 1863. None remain, although an older marker says that some do. There is a Battery Drive in the city.

Raleigh Arsenal
(1827 - 1907), Raleigh
A state arsenal was located at the southwest corner of Union (Capitol) Square. Used by the Confederate government as an Ordnance Depot after 1862. No remains.
(thanks to Jonathan Harris for additional info)

Camp Dan Russell (2)
(1877), Raleigh
A NC state National Guard annual training encampment (October 1877) located at the state fairgrounds, at the recently vacated (April 1877) former Union Reconstruction-era Russell Barracks (Camp Russell (1)).

Camp Anderson (3) (October 1878) was the annual National Guard encampment located near the fairgrounds, at Saunder's Field.

Camp Jarvis (October 1884) was the annual encampment held at the former Camp Russell (2) at the fairgrounds.

A segregated state encampment (unnamed ?) for the Charlotte Light Infantry (Colored) was held at the old barracks here in Raleigh in October 1890, after the rest of the National Guard (the white regiments) had held their annual encampment in July at Wrightsville Beach (Camp Latimer).

Camp Bryan Grimes (2)
(1898), Raleigh
A Spanish-American War state assembly and muster camp located just east of the state fairgrounds, along both sides of Hillsborough Street south to the railroad and present-day Pullen Park. State marker on site.

Camp Dan Russell (3) was located at the state fairgrounds. The fairgrounds were then located at what is now a residential and business district across from the North Carolina State University campus. The Raleigh Little Theater at 301 Pogue Street now occupies part of the site.

Camp Polk
(1918 - 1919), Raleigh
An Army training camp for the Tank Corps, including a Tank School. Located at the state fairgrounds (1873-1925). There was no state fair held here in 1918. The garrison was quartered in barracks located alongside Hillsborough Street near the NC State University campus. In 1920 the state started operation of the Camp Polk Prison Farm. The Polk Youth Detention Center was built here in 1963, closed in 1998 and was demolished in 2003.

Camp Battle (1)
(1863 - 1864), near Tarboro
A CSA camp (51st NC Regiment).

Camp French (2)
(1862), near Wilson
A CSA cavalry camp (September 1862) (Company I, 7th Regiment Georgia Cavalry).

Civil War Defenses of Goldsboro
(1861 - 1862), Goldsboro
CSA camps included:
Camp Advance (2) (October-November 1861), located at the horse racetrack near town. Units here included the Cherokee Artillery (Georgia), and the 3rd Battalion Georgia Volunteer Infantry.
Camp Clingman (2) (1862) (56th NC Regiment), one mile northwest of town.
Camp Collier (1862) (61st NC Regiment), located near Everittsville (location ?) and the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.
Camp Hardeman (March 1862), located two miles from town on the New Bern Road. The 2nd Independent Infantry Battalion (Georgia) was here in March 1862.
Camp Mason (2) (April-May 1862) (2nd NC Regiment, 2nd Company C; and 38th NC Regiment), located about two miles from town on the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad. Units here also included the 2nd Independent Infantry Battalion (Georgia), the 45th Regiment Georgia Infantry, and three companies of the 49th Regiment Georgia Infantry.
Camp McIntosh (April-May 1862) (1st NC Regiment, 2nd NC Regiment, and 3rd NC Regiment), located three or four miles east of town near the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad. Units here also included the 44th Regiment Georgia Infantry, and seven companies of the 49th Regiment Georgia Infantry.
Camp McLean (1864) (3rd NC Regiment, Junior Reserves).
Camp Randolph (March-April 1862), located in a pine grove near the railroad. This camp was probably renamed as Camp McIntosh (above). Units here included the 16th Regiment Georgia Infantry, the 24th Regiment Georgia Infantry, and Cobb's Legion (Georgia).
Camp Vance (3) (1862) (38th NC Regiment), located two miles from town on the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.

Confederate earthworks (1863) are preserved at Mulberry and Claiborne Streets (private property). They were once part of a four-mile line. Preserved CSA earthworks (1863) are also located three miles south of town on Old Mount Olive Highway at the Goldsborough Bridge Battlefield (December 1862).

Torhunta
(1711 - 1712), near Saulston
A Tuscarora Indian fort, the largest of nine such forts spaced about a mile apart protecting an open village made up of a network of farms scattered over several miles. Attacked by the SC colonial militia under Capt. John Barnwell in March 1712. Contemporary accounts refer to the fort as Narhantes. State marker located on US 13 at Saulston Road.

Fort Nooherooka
(1711 - 1713), Snow Hill
A Tuscarora Indian palisaded stronghold that was taken by troops under Col. James Moore from South Carolina in March 1713, after a two year struggle. After the war the Tuscarora relocated to New York State to join the Iroquois Five Nations Confederacy. A state marker on Contentnea Creek is one mile south of the site. Also spelled Nohoroco, Neoheroka. See also 2006 Tuscarora Protest at Fort Neoheroka Site from Indian Country News

Snow Hill Civil War Camps
(1862 - 1863), near Snow Hill
Camp Ferebee (2) (1862 - 1863), a CSA cavalry camp (59th NC Regiment) located four miles from town.
Camp Robertson (1862 - 1863), a CSA cavalry camp (63rd NC Regiment, Company I) located four miles from town, probably near Rainbow Creek southeast of town. This was headquarters of the 7th Regiment Confederate Cavalry in April 1863.
Camp Taliaferro (1863), headquarters camp of the 7th Regiment Confederate Cavalry in July 1863.
Camp Williams, a CSA camp (63rd NC Regiment, Company H).

Camp Baker (1)
(1860's), Greenville
A CSA camp. Attacked by the Union in November 1863.

Camp Jackson (1)
(1863), near Greenville
A CSA camp (42nd NC Regiment).

Camp Gordon
(1862), near Simpson
A CSA cavalry camp located about six miles east of Greenville along the Tar River.

Camp Burney
(1863), Haddock's Crossroads
A CSA camp (1st NC Battalion, Local Defense, Companies E and G).

King Hancock's Fort
(1711 - 1712), near Grifton
A Tuscarora Indian stonghold built by chief King Hancock, located just above the fortified village of Catechna on the west bank of the Contentnea (Cotechney) Creek, above the Neuse River. Attacked by the SC colonial militia under Capt. John Barnwell in April 1712. State marker located on NC 118 (Queen Street) at Highland Boulevard.

Fort Barnwell
(1712), Fort Barnwell FORT WIKI
Built by the South Carolina colonial militia during a campaign against the Tuscarora Indians. The site (with possible trace remnants) is located two miles northwest of town on Contentnea (Cotechney) Creek at the Neuse River, about 30 miles above New Bern. See also The Tuscarora War from NC Archives and History

Civil War Defenses of Kinston
(1861 - 1865), Kinston area
CSA camps included:
Camp Blackjack (1) (1862) (27th NC Regiment, and 52nd NC Regiment), located eight miles west of town near LaGrange (at Moseley Hall).
Camp Blackjack (2) (1862 - 1865), located five miles east of town near Graingers.
Camp Campbell (1861) (8th NC Regiment, 51st NC Regiment, and 54th NC Regiment), south or southeast of town.
Camp Daniel (1) (1862) (63rd NC Regiment, Company G; and 53rd NC Regiment) one mile south of town on the Neuse River.
Camp Grimes (1) (1864) (67th NC Regiment, Company K (cavalry)), possibly located in the Kinston area.
Camp Hamilton
Camp Hilton
Camp Hoke (1864) (67th NC Regiment, Companies A and E (infantry)).
Camp Johnston (36th NC Regiment, Company A; 41st NC Regiment, Company H; 17th NC Regiment (2nd Organization); 25th NC Regiment; 52nd NC Regiment; and 54th NC Regiment), located near Hardison Crossroads on Falling Creek.
Camp Martin (1) (1862) (31st NC Regiment), one mile north of town on John Tull's plantation.
Camp Nethercutt
Camp Pool (1862), located on Tower Hill Road near Georgetown. Earthworks consisting of a 50-yard semi-circular work with a 50-yard infantry trench, and several gun emplacements still exist along the north bank of the Neuse River. Seven guns were abandoned here when the Union attacked the town in December 1862.
Camp Ransom (2) (1862 - 1863) (9th NC Regiment, 25th NC Regiment, and 35th NC Regiment), located at Wyse Fork. Union trenchworks (March 1865) still exist here.
Camp Relief (1862) (37th NC Regiment), located eight miles from town (direction ?).
Camp Shiloh (1864) (67th NC Regiment, Company K (cavalry)), possibly located in the Kinston area.
Sandy Ridge Camp (1863), located near Dover on Old Dover Road, along Mosley Creek and the Craven County line.
Gum Swamp Fort (1863), located one mile west of Dover. A battle was fought here in January 1863.
Camp Southwest (1862 - 1865) (26th NC Regiment; and 27th NC Regiment), CSA earthworks are well-preserved along the north bank of Southwest Creek near Woodington, with two batteries on each end of the line. Site of battle March 1865. The 56-acre site was purchased in 2004 by the Historical Preservation Group.

CSA earthworks were also once located along Southwest Creek in Caswell, and in South Kinston guarding the old railroad bridge across the Neuse river.

Camp Martin (3)
(1863 - 1865), near Kenansville
A CSA camp (17th NC Regiment (2nd Organization), four companies) located one mile from town (direction ?).

Bentonville Battleground (State Historic Site)
(1865), Bentonville
Original Union earthworks are still located here. There are also recreated Confederate earthworks here. Scene of battle in March 1865.

Averasboro Earthworks
(1865), near Averasboro
Confederate earthworks were once located about three miles south of town, about one-half mile east of marker on NC 82. Scene of battle in March 1865. Site is private property. Exhibits and history at the Averasboro Civil War Museum on NC 82.

North Carolina Arsenal
(Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex)
(1836 - 1865), Fayetteville FORT WIKI
Also known as Fayetteville Arsenal. Captured by the CSA in April 1861. Destroyed by General Sherman in March 1865. Ruins remain at Arsenal Park. The Fayetteville and Harpers Ferry (WV) Arsenals were the only southern Federal ordnance facilities not continued after the war due to heavy damage to the equipment and machinery.

Fayetteville Earthworks
(1865), Fayetteville
Confederate earthworks are located on the grounds of the V.A. Hospital near Ramsey Street. They were not used in the March 1865 battle.

Fort Bragg (U.S. Military Reservation)
(1918 - present), Spring Lake FORT WIKI
A Regular Army field artillery training camp, originally named Camp Bragg until 1922. Pope Field was established in 1919 for artillery observation aircraft, and was later known as Pope Air Force Base from 1947 until 2011. Fort Bragg became an Airborne Training Center in 1942 with the creation of the Army Airborne Command, headquartered here. Simmons Field was established on post in 1952, primarily used for helicopter operations. Located on post is the 82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum, the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Museum, and the Airborne and Special Operations Museum.

Officially renamed Fort Liberty in June 2023. Officially reverted back to Fort Bragg (2) in March 2025, now after Army Private First Class Roland L. Bragg of the 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division, XVIII Airborne Corps during World War II.

Camp Mackall (1942 - present), near Southern Pines, originally named Camp Hoffman until 1943, was established for parachute and glider training for several infantry, field artillery, and anti-aircraft artillery units tasked for airborne operations. It became a subpost of Fort Bragg in 1952 and is currently used for various Special Operations training exercises.

Col. James Moore's Camp
(1776), near Hope Mills
Patriot forces under Col. Moore camped here prior to the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge (February 1776). The site is located on Rockfish Creek.

Camp Caldwell
(1871), Robeson County
Established by Federal troops from Fort Johnston during a roundup of a local criminal gang.

Town Creek Mound (State Historic Site)
(1400 - 1550), near Mount Gilead
A reconstructed Late Mississippian Period (Pee Dee Culture) palisaded ceremonial complex with two mounds and mortuary. Visitor center on site.

Colson's Supply Depot
(1781), near Mount Gilead
A fortified supply depot for the Southern Continental Army, located at Colson's Ferry on the Pee Dee River below Lake Tillery. Tories had earlier raided William Colson's place in July 1780.

Snow Camp British Encampment
(Snow Camp Historical Site)
(1781), Snow Camp
British forces under Major General Cornwallis camped here after the Battle of Guilford Courthouse (March 1781). From here the army then marched to Wilmington. Snow Camp was a Quaker settlement established before the war.

Occaneechi Indian Village
(c. 1700), Hillsborough
An ongoing reconstruction of an Occaneechi-Saponi Indian village on the banks of the Eno River downtown at the foot of South Cameron Street. Includes several huts and lodges, palisade, and gardens, interpreted to the early 1700's period.

Camp at Hillsborough
(1780 - 1782), Hillsborough
A major Patriot encampment established initially by Major General Baron DeKalb. Patriot Major General Horatio Gates retreated here after the Battle of Camden (August 1780). British Major General Cornwallis occupied the town in February 1781. Tory raiders under Col. David Fanning captured the town and Governor Thomas Burke in September 1781, precipitating the Battle of Lindley's Mill.

Camp Mason (1)
(1861), near Graham
A CSA camp (7th NC Regiment).

Governor Tryon's Camp
(1771), Alamance
Governor Tryon's colonial militia camped on Big Alamance Creek before and after the Battle of Alamance (May 1771) against the Regulators. See also Alamance Battleground State Historic Site

Camp Alamance
(1861 - 1865), Alamance
A CSA camp located on the old 1771 Alamance Battleground. Known units here were the 6th NC Regiment, and the 7th NC Regiment, Co. A.

Camp at Speedwell Ironworks
(1781), near Reidsville
The Patriot army's encampment prior to and after the Battle of Guilford Courthouse (March 1781). Defensive earthworks were constructed after the battle fearing a British counterattack which never came. Site located on Troublesome Creek southwest of town. See also Guilford Courthouse National Military Park

Tannenbaum Encampment
(Guilford Courthouse National Military Park)
(Guilford Battleground Company)
(1781), Greensboro
The British staging area during the Battle of Guilford Courthouse (March 1781), near the old New Garden Meetinghouse. This was the farmstead of Joseph Hoskins, who had earlier left his home near Valley Forge, PA because of the war. Park located at 2200 New Garden Road. Also here is the NC Colonial Heritage Center. In February 2010 the site, formerly Tannenbaum Historic Park, jointly operated by the National Park Service (Guilford Courthouse NMP) and the Greensboro Parks and Recreation Department, was transferred completely to the NPS. See also Explore Southern History.com

Camp Stokes (2)
(1864 - 1865), Greensboro
A CSA conscript camp (Maj. Jesse R. McLean's Battalion, Light Duty Men) established in October 1864 by Col. Peter Mallett. A monument is on Battleground Ave..

Camp Fisher (2)
(1861 - 1862), near High Point
A CSA camp (28th NC Regiment, 34th NC Regiment, and 37th NC Regiment) located east of town.

Bethabara (Historic Park)
(1756 - 1761), Winston-Salem
A stockaded 1753 Moravian settlement with two forts that were built during the French and Indian War to protect the settlers against the Cherokee, and serve as a base of operations for the Catawbas, who were British allies. It was never directly attacked. This was the first Moravian settlement in North Carolina. Now a city park, the village has been reconstructed, along with the palisade and one of the forts. Admission fee.

Camp Enon
(1860's), East Bend
A CSA camp.

William Johnson's Fort
(Tanglewood Park)
(1757 - 1765 ?), Clemmons FORT WIKI
A settlers' log stockade. Johnson died in 1765. Monument located in Tanglewood Park at 4201 Manor House Circle.

Camp Fisher (3)
(1862), Salisbury
A CSA training camp (42nd NC Regiment) at the Crawford Farm. Originally named Camp Hill (2).

Salisbury Military Prison
(1861 - 1865), Salisbury
A CSA stockade for Union POWs, built around the closed and recently abandoned 1836 Rowan Factory cotton mill located on Horah Street. The 42nd NC Regiment was here at one time, in addition to the regular prison guard battalion. Good conditions were present until 1864 when 10,000 new POWs arrived from Richmond, VA. Over 3000 died from disease. Captured in April 1865 during General Stoneman's Raid. On site is the so-called "Garrison House" (a former Officers' Quarters), the only above ground structure remaining. Nearby is the Salisbury National Cemetery at 202 Government Road, with an exhibit room. See also Confederate Prison from NCpedia.org

Salisbury CSA Arsenal
(1863 - 1865), Salisbury
A CSA manufacturing arsenal at the former Boyden Foundry. Destroyed by Union forces in April 1865.

Continental Laboratory
(1780 - 1781), near Salisbury
A Patriot supply depot and munitions manufactory, located on Church Creek southeast of town.

Fort Santiago
(1567 - 1568), near Salisbury ?
A Spanish stockaded log blockhouse with two earth and log bastions, built by the Juan Pardo Expedition on the Yadkin River at an Indian village known as Guatari. Exact location undetermined. A five-man mission station was established here by Pardo in January or February 1567. Pardo returned for a second expedition, and on their way back in December 1567 the five men were picked up, and about 15 - 30 men were left behind in the fort, but they probably did not survive the winter.

Camp Yadkin
(1864 - 1865), near Lakeview
A Confederate fortified encampment and two-gun battery (March 1865) on the north bank of the Yadkin River, on so-called York Hill, that protected the railroad bridge between Salisbury and Lexington. Also known as Fort Beauregard and Fort York. Attacked by Union troops on April 12, 1865, after taking Salisbury. The Confederate defenders, over 1000 men under Gen. Zebulon York, held the bridge, making this action the last Confederate victory in North Carolina. Surviving earthworks are bisected by US 29 at its junction with I-85. The 14-acre site was acquired in 2015 by the Land Trust for Central North Carolina, transferred to Davidson County in 2016. The old Wil-Cox Highway Bridge now allows pedestrian access via the Davidson County Greenway system. See also Stoneman's Raid from Trading Ford Historic District Preservation Association

Charlotte Encampment
(1780 - 1781), Charlotte
The British army under Major General Cornwallis encamped here in October 1780 and again in February 1781. The Patriot army under Major General Gates was here in November 1780, and where Major General Nathanael Greene took over command of the Southern Continental Army. Of interest here is the Hezekiah Alexander homesite (1774), operated by the Charlotte Museum of History.

Camp Sloan
(1860's), Charlotte
A CSA camp located adjacent to the North Carolina Military Institute (1858), located at Morehead Street and Independence Blvd..

Also in the area was CSA Camp Stokes (1) (1862).

Camp Greene
(1917 - 1919), Charlotte
A Federalized National Guard training encampment and demobilization center for the 3rd, 4th, and 41st (Sunset) Divisions. Located two miles west of the city. After the war, several of the buildings became private homes. The Dowd House (1879) was used as the camp headquarters, now a museum, located at 2216 Monument Street. A stone monument to the camp is located at Wilkinson Blvd. and Monument Street. Foundational ruins are located throughout Camp Greene Park.
See also Camp Greene from Charlotte Viewpoint.org || WWI Boot Camp in Charlotte from NCpedia.org
The Mystery of Camp Greene from Creative Loafing Charlotte

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