From the May 10, 2015, New Bern (NC) Sun-Journal "Re-enactor to retrace a long walk home from the Civil War" by Charlie Hale.
The walk kicked off Sunday when historian and re-enactor Philip Brown began retracing the path home of Confederate sailor Washington Duke back in 1865. Duke had been released from Union imprisonment in New Bern and, as most Confederates at the end of the war, had to provide their own transportation back home at the end of the war. His aim was to make it home to present-day Durham, N.C., 160 miles away.
The new walk is called "A Soldier's Walk Home" for some reason as Duke was a sailor.
The actual walk will begin at 9 a.m. Monday. when Brown will depart from Union Point Park in New Bern and then use less-traveled roads near railroad tracks for the rest of his 160-mile trek.
--Old B-Runner
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