by ccwinslow394 | Aug 14, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Wayne
AUTHOR: JC Knowles It is said that Lewis was the last Confederate officer wounded during the Civil War and that he laid on the battlefield as dead. However, some soldiers saw him and took him to safety. He survived the war. William Lewis Gaston was born in Rocky...
by ccwinslow394 | May 16, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson, Wayne
SUBMITTED BY: Yvonne Spell Williams I was born and raised in Sampson County, North Carolina. We lived in Cumberland until we moved to Utah to be closer to my son’s family. My mother was a Porter and her great-grandfather, grandfather, and grandmother are the focus of...
by ccwinslow394 | Mar 12, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Wayne
AUTHOR: William Smith My Great-Grandfather, Ben Casey, served in the 3rd NC Heavy Artillery during the Civil War. He was from Indian Springs, NC in Wayne County. He enlisted in 1862 and was stationed at Southport, NC where he served as a boatman – one of a crew...
by ccwinslow394 | Feb 7, 2019 | Union affiliation, Wayne
AUTHOR: Marvin Peguese My 3rd great-grandfather, Daniel Huff, served in the Civil War under an alias—Daniel Nazareth—after joining Union General William T. Sherman on his destructive, victorious march through the south. (Click image below to enlarge) I noticed...
by ccwinslow394 | Jan 26, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Wayne
AUTHOR: Linda Lancaster Harmon Parrot Hill was a member of a local militia called Griswold’s Company and he was a private in the 66th NC regiment Company I. He was captured in March of 1865 perhaps at Bentonville where he shows up as a prisoner of war. No other...
by ccwinslow394 | Sep 11, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Wayne
SUBMITTED BY: John McKinnon (The original copy was written in 1934 when Papa, Mr. F. L. Castex, Sr., was 82 years old. His birthday was February 14, 1852: therefore his recollections of the Civil War were of a child nine to thirteen years old.) I have been asked a...
