The city of Fayetteville has a history concerning the War of Northern Aggression, the War Between the States, or the Civil War depending on your preferences. If you'ld like a real eye opener then go and look at the Lincoln / Douglas Debates and see the truth that they don't teach in school. Go to thefourth debate at
www.nps.gov/archive/liho/debates.htm and scan down the page to the section labeled "Mr. Lincoln's Rejoinder."
Yes, Lincoln freed the slaves but he would not allow them to be citizens of the United States of America.
Robert E. Lee had a freed slave, body servant during the war by the name of William Mack Lee. William Mack along with all of Robert E. Lee's slaves were set free ten years before the war by General Lee but none left the plantation of the man that brought them to this land. When Robert E. Lee died he left $360 dollars to William Mack Lee for his education and $360 was a HUGE sum of money in those days.
William Mack Lee said of his benefactor "I was raised by one of the greatest men in the world. There was never one born of a woman greater than General Robert E. Lee."