Feb 8, 2017 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
Captured at Deep Creek Asaph Wilson Sherrill of Jackson County was a private in Thomas’ Legion. He was captured by Union soldiers at the Battle of Deep Creek. He was taken to Knoxville, Tennessee, then to Nashville, and finally, to a prison camp in Delaware. He...
Feb 8, 2017 | Clay, Confederate affiliation
A Glimpse into the Life of a Confederate Soldier Based on his Letters Home William Chamberlain Penland was the son of Harvey Monroe Penland and Patience Mahalia Moore Penland of Shooting Creek in Clay County, North Carolina. He joined the Confederate army when he was...
Jan 2, 2017 | Clay, Confederate affiliation
Submitted by Willis P. Whichard, Jerry H. Padgett, James L. Padgett, and Obie G. Whichard; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter In the 1850s, Sidney and Elijah Padgett migrated to Cherokee County from Rutherford County, North Carolina with their parents, John and...
Jan 2, 2017 | Confederate affiliation, Cumberland
Lieutenant D. A. Black Lieutenant D.A. Black was one of the “Carolina Boys” of Company K, 38th Regiment of the North Carolina Troops, under the command of Captain M. McR. McLauchlin. On May 3, 1862, Lieutenant D.A. Black wrote to a friend in North Carolina...
Aug 5, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Cumberland
A Tribute to a Christopher Gilbert Ray, One of the ‘Carolina Boys’ Born in 1841, Christopher Gilbert Ray was the son of Neill and Ann (Ray) Ray. During the Civil War, Gilbert enlisted in the Confederate Army, serving as one of the ‘Carolina...
Aug 5, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Randolph, Reconstruction
William Penn Wood: Wounded and Left to Die William Penn Wood was born in Asheboro, North Carolina on May 2, 1843. Wood was a son of Penuel and Calista Birkhead Wood. His youth was spent in Randolph County where he attended public schools from 1850 until 1861. As a...
