Col. Fred A. Olds of Raleigh gave our county a visit last week. While here he spent a day searching old records in the court house for data relating to the early history of Johnston County. He also spent an afternoon in Bentonville Township visiting the old battlefield. He purposes to give Johnston and especially the battlefield a writeup in the near future. His articles appear in The Orphan’s Friend, published at Oxford Orphanage. Col. Olds is also interested in a highway between Smithfield and Clinton, leading by the Bentonville battlefield.
From the front page of the Smithfield Herald, April 8, 1924
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