Lumbee Hero Subject of Panel Discussion

From the September 19, 2017, Robesonian.

Robeson County, North Carolina.

There will be a panel discussion on Henry Berry Lowrie put on by the UNC-Pembroke on Thursday.  Historian William McKee has written a book on Lowrie "To Die Game:  The Story of the Lowrie Band, Indian Guerrillas of the Reconstruction."

Another panel member, James Martinez of UNC-Pembroke wrote "Confederate Slave Impressment In the Upper South."  This covers the origins of the Lowrie War as Lumbee Indians were being forced to work on Fort Fisher.

Henry Berry Lowrie and his band left a deadly trail through Robeson County.

--Old B-Runner