by ccwinslow394 | Mar 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
The North Carolina Civil War & Reconstruction History Center is making great progress on Phase I’s “History Village”! In the architect’s birds-eye drawing above (click to enlarge), you can see the Village in the lower left as well as Phase...
by ccwinslow394 | Feb 26, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Hertford
SUBMITTED BY: Elizabeth Jones Thomas Parramore, “The Burning of Winton,” North Carolina Historical Review (Winter 1962): 18-31. Dr. Thomas Custis Parramore grew up in Winton and was a Raleigh historian, author, lecturer and Meredith College history professor...
by ccwinslow394 | Feb 26, 2020 | Hertford, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Elizabeth Jones (edited by Cheri Todd Molter) An Illustration of General Foster’s troops disembarking at Winton, N.C. Click to enlarge. This was the prelude to the burning of the town of Winton, which occurred in February...
by ccwinslow394 | Feb 26, 2020 | Hertford, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Elizabeth Jones (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) The following is an excerpt from The Secession Movement in North Carolina, which was written by Dr. Joseph Carlyle Sitterson and published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1939: “The...
by ccwinslow394 | Feb 26, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Nash
SUBMITTED BY: JD Mayo (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Photo of Charity Rose Womble. Click photo to enlarge. I have four ancestors who joined the Confederate Army during the Civil War. My great grandmother’s mom was Cherry Rose Robbins Sears (1867-1939). Her...
