Lowry War
The Lowry War is considered one of the most important and controversial events in North Carolina history. Led by Henry Berry Lowry (also spelled Henry Berry Lowrie), a part Tuscarora or Lumbee Indian whose father and brother were murdered by the Confederate Home Guard, a band of part Indian and African-American men waged a war against the establishment from 1864 to 1872. Lowry and his wife, Rhoda Strong, became Robin Hood-like figures to poor families of Robeson County, North Carolina, and are honored by them to this day.
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“Shall we gather at the river,
Where bright angel feet have trod;
With its crystal tide for ever,
Flowing by the throne of God?”
—Robert Lowry (1826–1899)
“We are constantly thinking of the great war ... which saved the Union ... but it was a war that did a great deal more than that. It created in this country what had never existed before—a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union, it was the rebirth of the Union.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)