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Salisbury to honor Civil War hero; descendants come from afar

Posted on May 2, 2011 |
By John Flowers



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SALISBURY’S LESTER HACK was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroics on a Civil War battlefield in Virginia in 1865. Hack and other area Civil War soldiers will be celebrated at the Salisbury Community School on Thursday.

SALISBURY — The date was April 2, 1865, and Salisbury’s Lester Hack was a long way from home, in a whole world of hurt.

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