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4 unusual facts about Wilson Caldwell


Wilson Caldwell

His father was November 'Doctor' Caldwell, a slave of Joseph Caldwell.

The UNC class of 1891 had a monument placed on his grave, a large sandstone obelisk once used to honor University president Joseph Caldwell.

Wilson Caldwell walked out with University President Swain, Judge W. H. Battle and others to the "foot of Piney Prospect to meet the incoming detachment of General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick's cavalry, in order to claim protection for the town and the University."

Wilson Swain Caldwell (1841-1898) was a distinguished Civil War-era African American.



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