Reenactment

USCT (United States Colored Troops) help the Cameron Art Museum remember the Wilmington civil war Battle of Forks Road.    The museum was built on land donated by Bruce Cameron, who had great-great uncles who fought in this battle, one for the North, the other for the South.    The true heroes of this battle where the regimen of Black soldiers who fought and defeated the confederate army thus cutting off the major supply chain of the confederacy.    The war ended shortly after the battle.

Also a treat was the unveiling of the Bronze face sulpture of President Abraham Lincoln by Cage.   It was forged from a terra cotta mold take of Lincoln’s face 6 weeks before his assignation.

The extra includes the unveiling by a young african-american ancestor and Ann Brennan, Museum Director.