by ccwinslow394 | Mar 12, 2019 | Buncombe, Confederate affiliation
AUTHOR: Michael Stroupe On September 11, 1861, nineteen-year-old Rufus Lott Stroup volunteered for the Confederate Army at Buncombe County, North Carolina. For unknown reasons, he enlisted again on May 13, 1862, in the same county. He served as a Private in Company H...
by ccwinslow394 | Feb 7, 2019 | Buncombe, Confederate affiliation
AUTHOR: Sid Stroupe and Mike Stroupe On November 9, 1861, John Marshall Stroup, at only seventeen years old, volunteered with the CSA in Buncombe County. The son of Joseph P. Stroup and born in 1844, John was described as having a dark complexion, dark hair, and...
by ccwinslow394 | Dec 14, 2018 | Buncombe, Confederate affiliation
AUTHOR: Sid Stroupe and Mike Stroupe William Stroup left Lincoln County in the early 1800s and settled in Buncombe County. He married Sarah “Sallie” Earwood and raised a family. They had four sons—Michael, Matthew, William, and James. All of William and Sallie’s sons...
by ccwinslow394 | Oct 2, 2018 | Buncombe, Confederate affiliation
AUTHOR: Sue Nash Cox Pinkney H. Warren resided in Buncombe County, North Carolina where he, at age nineteen, enlisted in the Confederate Army on July 22, 1861. He was mustered in as a Private, serving in Company I of the 25th Regiment, NC Troops. On April 28, 1862,...
by ccwinslow394 | Sep 6, 2018 | Buncombe, Confederate affiliation
AUTHOR: Jarrod Parker James Parker, the son of John and Balinda Parker, was born between 1827 and 1833 in Laurens County, South Carolina. He moved with his family to Buncombe County, North Carolina between 1845 and 1850. They settled in the Lower Hominy Valley, near...
by Ed Fredrickson | Jan 25, 2016 | Buncombe, Confederate affiliation
William Henry Sebring was born December 25, 1840 in St. Louis, MO. His early years were spent on a farm before he enrolled in an academy in St. Louis. At 18 years of age he became a resident of Memphis, TN where he read law under Thomas D. Eldridge. During the War...
