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NC Civil War Trail markers have been erected by two Surry County sites connected with General George Stoneman's march through northwestern North Carolina.
2 Sites in Surry County on the North Carolina Civil War Trails.
1. Reeves Plantation Site, Hardy Road, Siloam
2. York Tavern, Village of Rockford
Reeves Plantation Site- At Siloam, Union soldiers approached the Reeves home where Major Richard E. Reeves had brought his friend. Colonel William Luffman of Spring Place, Georgia to recuperate from wounds. The Union soldiers found a fight when one rode into the yard astried Col. Luffman's horse. The Union soldier was killed, a skirmish erupted and Major Reeves' mother, Elizabeth, saved the family home from being burned with a promise to give the fallen soldier a Christian Burial.
York Tavern, Village of Rockford-Union Soliders arrived in Rockford after livestock was hidden on the Brushy Island in the Yadkin River. The marker in the yard of the 1830 Mark York Tavern tells the story of the solider's attempt to convince Mrs. York to give them the location of horses to replace their tired and hungry ones. She refused and they left as they had arrived. Dr. Million Folger was summoned to care for a sick Union soldier. Dr. Folger's daughter, Molly remembered the word of the Union soldier who told her she reminded him of hiw own dear daughter.