thats right.,.its started in lexington and concord.

WoW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My schooling has paid off,,

There are a couple reasons for the term tarheel, but I aint going to
tell you..........LOL

hey young lady. how are you?, Im playing hookie today!

Hey Fanta,,, I am good,, Brushing up on my History,,,
Playing Hookie,,,,.,, Hmmmmmmmmmmmm,,, Good to see ya...

find it yet krow?


Ill except either one of two!
Come on LA hit the books

If I got paid for going to school,,, I would be so rich tight Know,,,
How is school going

In May 1856, Harper's Magazine mentioned someone who "lost his way among
the pine woods that abound in that tar and turpentine State," while an
1876 book on the Centennial Exposition described someone who 'spent his
youth in the good old 'Tar and Turpentine State.' "

troops of British General Cornwallis which is now known as the Tar River
between Rocky Mount and Battleboro where they discovered that tar had
been dumped into the stream to stop people from crossing.

When they finally got across the river they found their feet completely
black with tar.

So anyone who waded North Carolina rivers would acquire tar heels led to
the nickname tar feet

Krow,,, History class today has been enlightening,,, Thank you,,, Have
an incredible day...

Fanta::: always nice to see you

good LA

heres the one we like,




In Colonial days, North Carolina was a big producer of tar, pitch and
turpentine.

During one of the fiercest conflicts of the Civil War, North Carolina
troops felt they had been let down by a regiment carrying the colors of
another state, and thus carried chips on their shoulders when they
pulled back from the front after the battle.

"Any more tar down in the Old North State, boys?" members of the other
regiments taunted the battle-weary North Carolinians.

"Not a bit. Jeff Davis bought it all up," retorted the Carolinians.

"How's that, what's he going to do with it?"

"He's gonna put it on your heels to make you stick better in the next
fight," answered the soldiers from the land of tar, pitch and
turpentine.

Gerneral Lee, hearing of the incident, remarked: "God Bless the Tar Heel
Boys."

The nickname stuck.

Source ... Creecy's "Grandfather Tales of North Carolina"

hmmmmm wow.....ok

anyways back to lexington and concord..so the rebels are on the lawn
around 5am..and there gages men about 900 of themm..all scarlet red all
mean as hell and deadly..against 26 of us..with birdguns and
blunderbusses,,brown besses and pitchforks..what an army huh?..well
thats how it started..