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The Shelton Laurel Massacre

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Film by Evan Heimgartner.

Provider
Digital Heritage
Date created
2008
Duration
2:05
File
Flash Video
License
This video copyright ©2008. All Rights Reserved

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  • North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction: Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina during the Civil War and Reconstruction (1860–1876). Topics include debates over secession, battles and strategies, the war in North Carolina, the soldier's experience, the home front, freedom and civil rights for former slaves, Reconstruction, and the "redemption" of the state by conservatives. (Page 6.9)

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Narrator (00:31)
Appalachia was a house divided during the Civil War. Its communities and families were torn apart by issues such as slavery and class conflict. Turning on each other, the war created more and more suffering. One resulting tragedy occurred in 1863 in Madison County, Shelton Laurel Valley, north of Asheville. Union supporters and Confederate army deserters entered Marshall, Madison’s county seat, to commandeer a supply of desperately needed salt. Confederate soldiers tracked them to their homes in Shelton Laurel and rounded up 13 males ranging in age from 12 to 59 perhaps 5 of whom had participated in the salt raid and killed them. The Shelton Laurel massacre personifies the hostility and hatred engendered by the Civil War in the Appalachian Mountains.