by ccwinslow394 | Feb 10, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: JC Knowles (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Willis Richardson, an African American playwright, was born to Willis Wilder and Agnes Ann Harper Richardson on November 5, 1889. His parents lived in Wilmington, North Carolina, at the time of his...
by ccwinslow394 | Dec 16, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
SUBMITTED BY: Hugh MacRae II (written by Susan Block, edited by Cheri Todd Molter) (Click image to enlarge) William MacRae was born in Wilmington, North Carolina on the ninth of September, 1834. He was the…son of Alexander MacRae, president of the Wilmington and...
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...
