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Swannanoa Gap
Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: May 19, 2012
Caption: Swannanoa Gap
Additional Description: "Confederate Home Guard turned back elements of Stoneman’s raiders at Royal Gorge visible from here. On April 20, 1865, local Southerners blocked the road in the gorge with felled trees and other obstructions, causing the Union raiders to end their advance on Asheville (at least through here). The raiders detoured from here, however, and found another — much longer — way into the city."
Submitted: June 4, 2012, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p206148
File Size: 0.897 Megabytes

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