May 17, 2022 | Antebellum era, Cumberland, Union affiliation
Written by Laurie Jones; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter Located at 1507 Morganton Rd. in Fayetteville, Fair Oaks is a large, two-story frame house with Greek Revival elements that was built in 1858. Its construction and design are attributed to brothers...
Apr 8, 2022 | Cumberland, New Hanover, Union affiliation
Submitted by Ed Gibson; Vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter One morning, while sitting at coffee with several other Cape Fear Round Table members, I heard Bill Jayne mention that there was a member of the 147th Pennsylvania buried at the Wilmington National...
Mar 30, 2022 | Cherokee, Clay, Confederate affiliation, Reconstruction, Union affiliation
Submitted by Melessia Croker; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter I have written everything I know about my ancestors on a webpage on my family site. These stories are pretty well known locally, so someone else may have already sent in the story about David Ledford...
Jul 19, 2021 | New Hanover, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Baylor Hicks; article written by Melissa De Witte; excerpt edited by Cheri Todd Molter A Note from Baylor Hicks: Bill Gould (William Gould IV) was one of my professors at Stanford Law School. I knew that his great-grandfather was a contraband in the...
Jul 19, 2021 | Confederate affiliation, Cumberland, Union affiliation
AUTHOR: Joel W. Rose; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter The Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads (also known as Kilpatrick’s Shirttail Skedaddle) took place in Cumberland County on the grounds of the present-day Fort Bragg Military Reservation. [Click on...
Apr 6, 2021 | Sampson, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Joel Rose for Richard G. Fowler (edited by Cheri Todd Molter) Note: One of my great grandfathers, Charles Sawyer, a forty-year-old father of four, volunteered as a musician and medical corpsman in the 141st New York Infantry, XXth Corps. He kept a daily...