Guilford Courthouse Administrative History

CHAPTER 6:
Endnotes

1 Jack Betts, "James G.W. MacClamroch: Idea Man," Greensboro Daily News, 1 January 1978.

2 The most convenient source for material regarding the Hoskins property is Hatch, Guilford Courthouse And Its Environs. pp. 77-80. A much modified cabin standing on the property was (and is) locally considered to be the original Hoskins house. If so it is the only surviving structure from the period of the battle. For significant evidence that this cabin was built in the nineteenth century on the original site see: Katherine Hoskins to W.P. Brandon, 18 February 1938, Historical File B-7, Guilford Courthouse NMP.

3 See, for example, J.G.W. MacClamroch to Rep. Carl T. Durham, 16 July 1940, Carl T. Durham Papers, SHC; J.G.W. MacClamroch to Dr. C.C. Crittenden, 6 January 1941, NC Historical Commission Files, NC Division of Archives and History.

4 Brandon, Land Acquisition Program, 9 May 1940.

5 A.E. Demaray to J.G.W. MacClamroch, 26 December 1940, Carl T. Durham Papers, SHC.

6 W.P. Brandon, Monthly Narrative for January 1941, 4 February 1941, Monthly Narratives File, GUCO.

7 J.G.W. MacClamroch to A.E. Demaray, 28 February 1941. 602-01 GUCO, RG 79, National Archives, microfilm. The enclosed map excepted only the Greensboro Country Park and Forest Lawn Cemetery from the proposed acquisition area. No survey of the area was ever performed and it appears that acreage figures that were subsequently bandied about were estimates. The area included in MacClamroch's proposal was essentially an isosceles triangle and its approximate size has been computed algebraically to be 820 acres. MacClamroch excepted from his proposal the battlefield areas contained in the Greensboro Country Park and Forest Lawn Cemetery, 340 acres more or less. Also deducted should be the land already part of the Military Park, roughly 150 acres. The remaining balance to be acquired via this proposal was 330 acres. Acreage figures for city facilities obtained by the author from James Sykes, City of Greensboro Department of Parks and Recreation, and Thomas Ravenel, City of Greensboro Cemetery Division. It is worthy of note that battle related artifacts have been recovered by amateur archaeologists throughout the area covered by MacClamroch's proposal. It is also noteworthy that one of the Guilford Battle Ground Company's most impressive discoveries, a grave containing the remains of three Continental soldiers, was unearthed beyond the northern limit of this area proposed for acquisition. Schenck, Memorial Volume, pp. 18-19. Interview by the author with Donald J. Long, 6 June 1994, GUCO.

8 A.E. Demaray to J.G.W. MacClamroch, 13 March 1941, 602-01 GUCO, RG 79, National Archives, microfilm.

9 J.G.W. MacClamroch to Hillory A. Tolson, 26 March 1941, 602-01 GUCO, RG 79, Guilford Courthouse NMP, National Archives, microfilm. MacClamroch was unaware that aside from the historical consensus that Saratoga was one of the most important battles in world history, Saratoga NHP had a very influential advocate in the person of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Charles B. Hosmer, Jr., Preservation Comes Of Age. From Williamsburg to the National Trust, 1926-1949 (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1981) I:531.

10 A.E. Demaray to J.G.W. MacClamroch, 3 February 1941, 13 March 1941, Record Group 79, Guilford Courthouse NMP, National Archives, microfilm. N.B. Drury to J.G.W. MacClamroch, 1 April 1941, Carl T. Durham Papers, SHC.

11 J.G.W. MacClamroch to N.B. Drury, 5 April 1941, Carl T. Durham Papers, SHC.

12 J.G.W. MacClamroch to C.T. Durham, 9 June 1941, Carl T. Durham Papers, SHC.

13 W.P. Brandon, Monthly Narrative Report for June 1942, 8 July 1942, Monthly Narratives File, GUCO.

14 W.P.Brandon, Monthly Narrative Report for February 1941, 5 March 1941, Monthly Narrative File, GUCO; Memorandum, Charles S. Marshall to J.C. Harrington, 13 October 1943, 602-01 GUCO, RG 79, National Archives, microfilm; "Guilford Project Brought To Fore," Greensboro Daily News, 12 September 1946.

15 Charles S. Marshall to J.C. Harrington, 26 June 1943, 602-01 GUCO, RG 79, National Archives. Modern research indicates that MacClamroch's appraisal of the battlefield's size was fairly accurate, perhaps even a bit conservative. See, for example, Richard K. Showman and Dennis M. Conrad (eds.) The Papers of General Nathanael Greene (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994) VII: 436-437. Staff research indicates the park contains about twenty-five per cent of the battlefield. Interview by the author with Donald J. Long, Guilford Courthouse NMP, 3 September 1994.

16 Charles S. Marshall, Monthly Narrative for February 1944, 1 March 1944, Monthly Narrative File, GUCO.

17 Oliver G. Taylor to Newton B. Drury, 30 March 1944, 601-01 GUCO, RG 79, National Archives, microfilm; Charles S. Marshall, Monthly Narrative for August 1943, 3 September 1943, Monthly Narrative File, GUCO.

18 Charles S. Marshall, Monthly Narrative for July 1945, 3 August 1945, Monthly Narrative File, Guilford Courthouse NMP.

19 Alexander R. Stoessen, "The Elixir of War--Greensboro: An Army Town, 1942-1946," (unpublished manuscript), pp.3-7, 12-14, GUCO Historical Files; "Guilford Project Brought To Fore Again," Greensboro Daily News, 12 September 1944.