Warren Winslow, Governor & Congressman
Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina
Marker Inscription
Warren Winslow 1810 1862. Acting Governor, 1854; Congressman, 1855-1861. Negotiated surrender of local U.S. arsenal in 1861. Grave 40 yds. SE.
Erected by North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
The Story
Warren Winslow rose quickly through North Carolina politics, serving as acting governor in 1854 and then in Congress through the secession crisis. As the state joined the Confederacy in 1861, he helped negotiate the transfer of the U.S. Arsenal at Fayetteville into Southern hands—an act that would make the town a Confederate manufacturing center. He died in 1862, early in the war he had helped bring to his doorstep.
Why it matters
The surrender of federal arsenals across the South in 1861 armed the young Confederacy and marked the collapse of national authority that made civil war possible.
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Related people
- · Warren Winslow
Related events
- · Seizure of the Fayetteville Arsenal, 1861
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