Lowrie Gang War of Rights Regiment

Early in the Civil War, the North Carolina military turned to forced labor to construct defenses. Several Lowrie cousins, excluded from military service because they were free men of color (also called free blacks), had been conscripted to help build Fort Fisher, near Wilmington. Other non-whites resorted to "lying out" or hiding in the region's swamps to avoid being rounded up by the Home Guard (Confederacy) and forced to work for low wages. On December 21, 1864, James P. Barnes, a neighbor of Allen Lowrie, accused him of stealing hogs. Lowrie's son Henry killed Barnes. In January 1865, Henry Lowrie also killed James Brantley Harris, a conscription officer, for allegedly mistreating the women of the Lowrie family. In March 1865, the Home Guard searched his father Allen Lowrie's home and found firearms, which free people of color had been forbidden to own since after 1831 and Nat Turner's rebellion. The Home Guard convened a kangaroo court, convicted Allen Lowrie and his son William, and executed them. Henry Lowrie reportedly was watching from the bushes. Henry Lowrie led a gang in committing a series of robberies and murders against the upper class, continuing until 1872. The attempts to capture the gang members became known as the Lowry War. The Lowrie gang consisted of Henry Lowrie, his brothers Stephen and Thomas, two cousins (Calvin and Henderson Oxendine), two of his brothers-in-law, two escaped slaves, a white man, and two other men of unknown relation. Lowrie's gang continued its actions into Reconstruction. Republican governor William Woods Holden outlawed Lowrie and his men in 1869, and offered a $12,000 reward for their capture: dead or alive. Lowrie responded with more revenge killings.

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