High Point and the Civil War

Confederate burial downtown High Point.  What was once the Barbee Hotel became a Confederate Hospital.

 

These photographs are Civil War related to the area of High Point

Pilot Mountain

 

Dr. Andrew Jackson Sapp

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Dr. Sapp attended soldiers at the Biltmore Hotel while used as a hospital during the Civil War. At least fifty Confederate soldiers are known to have died there. They were originally buried behind the hotel but later reinterred in Oakwood Cemetery.

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