Feb 10, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson
SUBMITTED BY: Sandra White Hinton (transcribed by Cheri Todd Molter and Caitlin Crenshaw) August_20_1863 Lal and James White and August_20_1863_backside (click on links at left to view PDFs of letter) (Note from Sandra White: “Here are Lal’s letters....
Oct 4, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Sandra White Hinton Lyman Abbott White, my grandfather, was well known around Salemburg and Roseboro as a great storyteller. When I was a little girl, he would set me on his knee and tell me about Br’er Rabbit and Br’er Fox. I loved my...
Aug 6, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Joel Rose WRITTEN BY: Jerome Tew “There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.” – William T. Sherman The Ohio State Journal reported General Sherman’s “War is Hell” speech on August 12, 1880. By that...
Jun 3, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson
AUTHORS: Joel Warrick Rose On June 19, 1879, General William T. Sherman gave an address to the graduating class of the Michigan Military Academy in which he used the often-quoted phrase “war is hell.” It is probably the most memorable statement that was ever...
May 16, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson, Union affiliation, Wayne
SUBMITTED BY: Yvonne Spell Williams; Vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter A Mixture of Both Our Family’s Oral Traditions and Documented Information I was born and raised in Sampson County, North Carolina. We lived in Cumberland until we moved to Utah to be...
May 15, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Joel W. Rose; Written by Stephen Lee; edited by Cheri Todd Molter (Photograph above by Joel Rose of the Bullard farm house, located on Carry Bridge Road in the Hayne community of Sampson County, NC.) Generations of descendants of Thomas Bullard...
