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...
by ccwinslow394 | Sep 11, 2018 | Iredell, Union affiliation, Wayne
AUTHOR: Betty Bowles Haywood You might call me one-quarter Yankee. My great-grandfather, Major Hiram Grant, came to Goldsboro as part of the Army of Occupation after the Civil War. He was first cousin to General U.S. Grant. Hiram had four children whom he sent to New...
by ccwinslow394 | Sep 9, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Wayne
SUBMITTED BY: Leisa Greathouse Needham Brown was one of twelve siblings. All six sons enlisted in the Confederacy. He enlisted in Wayne County, NC in 1863. He epitomized an average North Carolinian. He was in Company D and Company L, 66th Regiment. He survived the...
