April 1865 was a pivotal moment in the story of North Carolina and the nation as four years of horrific war ground to a messy, perilous finale. Wake County became the stage for 120,000 Union and Confederate soldiers who marched down her roads, shadowed by scores of newly emancipated African-Americans – all staring into the face of unknown future. Historian Ernest Dollar reveals the chaos of that monumental spring in his gripping presentation The End of the Civil War in Wake County. Dollar recounts life amid the tempest through intimate, personal stories of the men and women who endured the maelstrom, bearing witness to chaos and the near destruction of North Carolina’s capital city.
