Historical Marker
Leonard Medical School
Historical marker location:
800 S. Wilmington Steet, Raleigh, North Carolina
( Marker is on South Wilmington Street, 0.1 miles north of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, on the left when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 2005
During the Civil War, North Carolina was the second to last state to secede from the Union, doing so on May 20, 1861, and sending more soldiers to fight for the Confederacy than any other state.