by ccwinslow394 | Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Cumberland, New Hanover
SUBMITTED BY: Robert Maffitt? [Editor’s Note: This is an expanded story of one on the website entitled “John N. Maffitt, 1st Lieutenant in the Confederate Navy.”] At Wilmington, there were many Southern merchant ships that ran the Northern blockade...
by ccwinslow394 | Sep 11, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
SUBMITTED BY: Tom Fagart On Christmas Eve, 24 December 1864, the Confederate fortress of Fort Fisher (aka The Gibraltar of The South) located near Wilmington, North Carolina at the mouth of the Cape Fear River came under attack by Union Naval and Army forces. Sixty...
by Diane Gage | Feb 22, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
Reminiscences of Oliver Larkin Stringfield (1851-1930): “My great-grandfather was a Virginian of Dutch descent, a soldier in the Revolutionary War — married Miss Fellows, of Duplin County, NC. Settled there, raised six children. My grand-father, Joseph,...
by Robert Maffitt | Jan 27, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
John N. Maffitt was born at sea on February 22, 1819. The location was Atlantic Ocean longitude 40W, latitude 50N. This exact position is referenced by Rudyard Kipling in his Just So Stories, “How the Whale Got his Throat.” The stage is now set for young...
by Chris M. Boswell | Jan 26, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
My great great great grandfather, William H. Conaway, resided in Onslow County and worked as a farmer. He enlisted in New Hanover County, Wilmington, NC, on March 3, 1862 at age 36. He mustered in as Sergeant of the 51st North Carolina Regiment, Company G, Infantry....
by Janice Lee Miller | Jan 26, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
Amos Lee lived in the town of Willard in Duplin County. He was a private in the 8th Senior Reserves during the Civil War. After the war, he was a farmer, bridge-builder, and tooth-puller. If anyone had a bad tooth, they would come see Amos Lee. He would give them a...
