Did troops destroy NC farms during the civil war ?

During the civil war, did troops (union or confederate) destroy some of the plantations and farms in North Carolina?Did troops destroy NC farms during the civil war ?
Yes they did. Most of this destruction was of course at the hands of Union troops, though some might have been done by rebel troops if they needed food. However, it is more likely some farmers, but probably not plantation owners, would have fed rebel troops if needed and they had it to spare, but troops of either army could and did take food as needed. Few farmers had any slaves. Plantations would have more than likely only been destroyed by Union troops.Did troops destroy NC farms during the civil war ?
Governor Vance wrote letters to Jefferson Davis complaining of depredations by Confederate troops on NC citizens. Foraging by Union troops is the stuff of movies like "Gone With The Wind", and "Gods %26amp; Generals", but little mention of the CSA's harsh impressment policies is to be found. Those policies basically reduced white Confederate Southerners to victims of pillaging by their own army. White Unionists were subjected to a campaign of state-sponsored terror, by CSA authorities.

Google the Shelton Laurel Massacre, and the Kingston Hanging.



According to Gov. Vance...'the only thing (North Carolinians) fear more than the Yankees, is our own army'...Not a direct quote, but close.



The book "Lies Across America, What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong", documents a case in which the Sons Of Confederate Veterans, deliberately suppressed the erection of a monument to North Carolina Unionists, involved with Sherman's march through the state. His army was supported not just by freed Blacks, but by white North Carolinians. The SCV depicted the monument to the press, as a "memorial to Sherman", and inflamed public sentiment against it. Just part of a long history of

efforts by "heritage groups" to suppress the memory of white dissent against the CSA, among Southerners.



Another good book to check out is "Bitterly Divided, The South's Inner Civil War" by David Williams.

The book documents a different Southern perspective of the war, than the one put forth by Hollywood, the SCV, and United Daughters of the Confederacy.