{"id":104,"date":"2010-08-30T17:38:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T17:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmdc.wcu.edu\/?p=104"},"modified":"2023-06-20T13:20:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T13:20:56","slug":"the-battle-of-asheville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/2010\/08\/30\/the-battle-of-asheville\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of Asheville"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On April 6, 1865, the Battle of Asheville was fought in the closing days of the Civil War. Only three days before Lee surrendered to Grant at the Appomattox\u00a0 Courthouse, Union Colonel Issac Curby, based in Greenville, Tennessee joined up with Stoneman\u2019s Raiders to secure the Confederate town of Asheville.\u00a0 They were met by a small number of Confederate troops and civilian men and boys.\u00a0 A five hour exchange of long-range gunfire and some artillery followed.\u00a0 The Union commander apparently knew the war was all but over and chose to avoid close combat.\u00a0 Thus, the Battle of Asheville was perhaps the first of the war without any casualties.\u00a0 It was very nearly the last battle as well.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Multimedia:<\/h3>\n<h2>Below is the Digital Heritage Moment as broadcast on the radio:<\/h2>\n[audio:http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/AshevilleBattle60Mx.mp3|titles=AshevilleBattle60Mx]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 6, 1865, the Battle of Asheville was fought in the closing days of the Civil War. Only three days before Lee surrendered to Grant at the Appomattox  Courthouse, Union Colonel Issac Curby, based in Greenville, Tennessee joined up with Stoneman\u2019s Raiders to secure the Confederate town of Asheville.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[52,103,135,138],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-asheville","tag-buncombe-county","tag-civil-war","tag-colonel-issac-curby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8862,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/8862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}