A Road to the Past

At the southwest corner of Hillsborough and Dawson in Downtown Raleigh L. O'B. Branch. Full name: Lawrence O'Bryan Branch. Also not one of my best pictures (granted, it was definitely one of the first pictures I took when I initially conceived the idea for this blog). Anyways, Branch was born on November 28, 1820, in Enfield, North Carolina, the youngest of six children. I initially thought he was a bit of an obscure character, as I couldn't find a lot of online-based sources discussing his biography. But I was wrong! This post ended up being pretty fun to research! However, I'll be using some book sources to support my discussion, and they are cited as the following: The Battle of Hanover Court House: Turning Point of the Peninsula Campaign, May 27, 1862 , by Michael C. Hardy Letters of Lawrence O'Bryan Branch , edited by A.R. Newsome (when I cite the pages for this one, it's the page number of the larger journal, not of this specific article) The Publ