by ccwinslow394 | Sep 6, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Lenoir
SUBMITTED BY: Roland Franklin Vause (Click picture to enlarge) Antebellum The future looked promising to Robert Bond Vause in March of 1861. He was living on a prosperous farm in the Wyse Fork community of Lenoir County with his wife Susan Adaline Jackson. The Vause...
by ccwinslow394 | Sep 6, 2019 | Hertford, Union County
AUTHOR: Marvin T. Jones (Reprinted from the Fall 2011 newsletter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc.) “Seventeen members of the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) in my family, our own stores, a fairground and our own airstrips–that is...
by ccwinslow394 | Sep 6, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Wake
SUBMITTED BY: Mike Stroupe These are letters written by Levi McCasin to his brother and his wife. He was a husband, father, brother, and soldier who was obviously concerned with how things were being handled back at home while he was stationed at Camp Mangum, near...
by ccwinslow394 | Sep 6, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Wake
SUBMITTED BY: JC Knowles Lawrence O’Bryan Branch was born at Enfield, North Carolina on November 28, 1820. When he was five years old, his mother died. After her death, he and his father moved to Tennessee where his father then died in 1827. Following his father’s...
by ccwinslow394 | Sep 6, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Franklin, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Sherry Jackson My father, James Powell, was a little boy when his grandmother told him the stories, but he remembers bits and pieces. This is what he recalls: His grandmother, Amanda B. Powell, was born into enslavement in the 1800s in Franklin County,...
