North Carolina

November 15-23, 2014:  We traveled from Tennesee across North Carolina to the small town of Four Oaks.  After mostly one night stops since we left Michigan, we decided to stay here for a week.  The Raleigh Oaks RV Park and Resort is a new facility.  We were ready for some "at home" days.  Chuck has been enjoying the billiards room.  We discovered that the Civil War Bentonville Battlefield was nearby so we visited it.  It was the last major battle before the South surrendered.  

                                       Driving through the Smokey Mountains.

                        There are many fields of cotton growing throughout the area.

This was the Harper family home on the historic Bentonville Battlefield.  It was used as a surgery by the Union army during the battle.  The family assisted in the care of soldiers from both sides.  The small wooden building to the left of the house was the kitchen.  Near there was one of two wells on the property.  The wooden structure to the far left was the house for the family's three slaves.