Morrisville is known as a small, sleepy town in central North Carolina. However, this town in the heart of the state�s most technological area has a long and colorful past. The Morrisville community traces its origin to its location on the state�s colonial east-west road and became a town, naming itself after resident Jeremiah Morris, with the arrival of the North Carolina Railroad in 1852. Its strategic stop along the railroad brought warring armies during the Civil War, and afterward, re...

"This study goes beyond the military aspects to examine the psychological and emotional impacts on the participants, both military and civilian." — Charles R. Knight, author of From Arlington to AppomattoxOne day after General Robert E. Lee's surrender on April 9, 1865, more than 120,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were still in the field bringing war with them as they moved across North Carolina's verdant heartland. Thousands of parole...