Lt. Frances Lyell Hoge served as the Executive Officer aboard the CSS Neuse from February 1864 through the end of the Civil War but lived a life much larger than his brief time in Kinston. Based on research conducted by NC Historic Sites Education & Interpretation Supervisor Andrew Duppstadt, this temporary exhibit explores Hoge’s life from his education at the United States Naval Academy to his career as a civil engineer in Wheeling, West Virginia after the Civil War. The new temporary exhibit, which includes numerous artifacts on loan from Hoge descendants, will be unveiled at the CSS Neuse Civil War Interpretive Center in downtown Kinston on Saturday, September 4.