Company K, Mecklenburg Beauregards

9^th Pennsylvania Reserves

Company H, New Brighton Rifles

Colonel Francis Marion Parker Civilian Alliance

9^th PA Monument-Gettysburg

We are historians dedicated to the preservation and teaching of history.

Our Unit Founder Walt Hilderman is behind this initiative and has asked we each consider lending our support to this cause.

This is a sample letter you can use to tell the NC Legislature to fund this project.

Please click here for a sample letter

Also contact your state senator and representative and ask for their vote to fund the Preservation of the CSS Neuse. Please pass this e-mail to those in your address book and ask for their assistance as well.

Thanks!

Yours truly,

CSS Neuse Partnership "To Save the CSS Neuse"

(CSS Neuse Gunboat Association-Historical Preservation Group- Lenoir County Tourism-

Lenoir County Tourism Development Authority)

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The CSS Neuse –Ironclad Gunboat

(The only CSS Commissioned Gunboat remains left in the world)

Located in Kinston/Lenoir County

The Eastern Front for the Confederacy in North Carolina during the Civil War

“SAVE ONE OF NORTH CAROLINA’S
LARGEST NATIONAL TREASURES!”

To Save This Authentic Historic Relic

Future Preservation Requires That It Be In A

Climate Controlled Environment

The State of North Carolina has already acquired a building in downtown Kinston to house the Neuse and other Civil War artifacts. The gunboat will be the highlight of the museum's interpretive scheme; however, the vessel is rapidly deteriorating. It will be lost forever unless the people of North Carolina act to save her.

Contact your state representative and state senator and ask them to help secure funding for the preservation of the CSS Neuse.

The future Civil War Museum with the CSS Neuse as the centerpiece will be the cornerstone of heritage tourism in Lenoir County. It has great promise to attract people from all over the country. This means furthering economic development through tourism and bringing dollars to Eastern North Carolina.

Act now and make a statement, “SAVE THE NEUSE”

Historic Preservation is not an administrative process but a movement of the people

Join Friends of the CSS Neuse

CSS Neuse Gunboat Association

P.O. Box 3043

Kinston, NC 28502

For more information contact

Historical Preservation Group - diamondgp@cox.net

1603 West Road Kinston, North Carolina, 28501
www.historicalpreservationgroup.org