Our State – Our Stories
Peter Jones’ eyewitness account of Sherman’s March through Anson County
SUBMITTED BY: Steve Campbell Hagwood AUTHOR: Peter Jones, 1848-1943 "The day the Yankees came into this county was the first day of March in '65. Me and some of the neighbor's boys had run away from home. We were too young to join the army, and that day we went...
Eyewitness Account of Sherman’s March Through Anson County, NC, March 3-5, 1865
TRANSCRIBED AND SUBMITTED BY: Steve Campbell Hagwood [This is an eyewitness account by Charlotte Bennett[i], daughter of Lemuel D. Bennett, of the events in Anson County, NC on March 3-5, 1865. Charlotte would have been 15 at the time this occurred and this account...
Private Alvis C. Webb
SUBMITTED BY: Linda Webb Franklin Alvis Cornelius Webb was born in 1836 in Wentworth, North Carolina, the son of John and Elizabeth. On July 25, 1857, he married Chaney Ann Victoria Carter. He enlisted in the Confederate Army on February 27, 1862 in Rockingham...
Message from a Union soldier in an 1865 Sabbath School Journal
SUBMITTED BY: Warren Grimes From Mr. Grimes: "I've attached a page from Centenary United Methodist Church's 1865 Sabbath School Journal where a Union soldier wrote in it while Sherman's army was in Smithfield after the Battle of Bentonville. Also added a typewritten...
10-year-old girl who crawled past Sherman’s lines sees the Civil War again — this time in a safer way
SUBMITTED BY: Warren Grimes AUTHOR: Thad G. Stem, Jr. Click on the link to the right for the story >> Bentonville Civil War- Dora Hood Kirkman Memories - Durham Herald...
David Stroup, Jr., 1841-1862
AUTHOR: Michael Stroupe In July 1860, David Stroup was 18 years old and was a “farm laborer” who was living with the Henry McClure family in the Spring Hill Forge Post Office District of Lincoln County, NC. He had been born in Lincoln County, but after David’s father...
John Bowden Hood’s Civil War Service and Story of Gettysburg
SUBMITTED BY: Warren Grimes John Bowden Hood, second son of Robert T. and Dicy Hood, was born in Wayne County, North Carolina, on April 1, 1843. At an early age he moved with the family into Bentonville Township, Johnston County, and here grew to manhood. Scarcely...
Dora Hood Kirkman Remembers The Battle of Bentonville
SUBMITTED BY: Warren Grimes The link below is a reprint of story from 1927 Smithfield Herald. Dora Hood Kirkman was my great-great-aunt. There is also a reprint from a 1945 Durham Herald Sun - will send that in a separate upload. Click on the link to the right >>...
Daniel S. Stroup [1843-1927] and Jasper Stoe Stroup [1846-1922]: Two Brothers who Left NC after the War
AUTHOR: Michael Stroupe (click image to enlarge) The sons of Jacob Cephus Stroup, Daniel “Dane” and Jasper, both resided in White Pine [now Cherryville] in Gaston County, N.C, and they both fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War. Daniel S. (Dane) Stroup,...
The Sawyer Family of Tyrrell County
AUTHOR: Kim West-Devlin Samuel Sawyer and his brother Charles were in the 32nd North Carolina regiment under Pettigrew. My line is Samuel. He and his brothers' names are on the Confederate monument in Columbia. Charles was taken prisoner and put in Elmira prison in...
James Archibald Holt
AUTHOR: Robin D. Holt James Archibald Holt, Company G, North Carolina 6th Infantry Regiment, enlisted in the service of the Confederate States of America on May 29, 1861 at Charlotte, NC. Discharged on September 8, 1862. This was the only information the family ever...
Miles Abernathy Stroup [1837-1891]: A Confederate Veteran who became a Doctor
AUTHOR: Michael Stroupe Miles Abernathy Stroup, the eldest son of Christopher “Christy” Stroup and older brother of Daniel Matthew Stroup (to read Daniel’s story, see “Daniel Matthew Stroup and the Claim against the Confederate Government”), lived in White Pine [now...
Daniel Matthew Stroup and the Claim against the Confederate Government
AUTHOR: Michael Stroupe Daniel Matthew Stroup, the youngest son of Christopher “Christy” Stroup, was born in 1844. He lived in White Pine (now Cherryville) in Cleveland County (now Gaston Co.) North Carolina. On October 25, 1861, Daniel Matthew enlisted in Cleveland...
Maxwell, Wesley, Cephas, Johanna, and Rufus Stroup: Only Two of these Five Brothers Survived the War
AUTHOR: Michael Stroupe Jonas and Rebecca Cloninger Stroup lived in Gaston County, N.C. and had five sons—William Maxwell, Wesley, Cephas C, Johanna, and Rufus—all of whom served in the Confederate Army. The family paid a steep price—three of their sons died during...
The Reaves Family of Duplin County Campaign During The Civil War: The Toll and Tragedy on Robert Reaves Family
AUTHOR: Donald Reaves Robert Reaves was my 3rd great uncle and older brother to my 2nd great grandfather, David Reaves of Wolfscrape District of Duplin County. David Reaves served as a 1st Lieutenant in Duplin County Home Guard. Their youngest brother and my 3rd...
Halt! Who goes there?
AUTHOR: Karen Meekins Friel My great-great-grandfather Benjamin Barnes was a civilian living in Kinnakeet, NC (now called Avon) during the Civil War. I believe the Outer Banks were off and on occupied by Union forces during the war. One night Benjamin was walking...
Civil War Hospitals and Freedmen’s Bureau Hospitals in North Carolina
AUTHOR: Dr. Phoebe Ann Pollitt, RN (Excerpted from Dr. Pollitt's book African American Hospitals in North Carolina: 39 Institutional Histories, 1880-1967 [pp. 9-12, McFarland Books, 2017]) Civil War Hospitals in North Carolina At the outbreak of the Civil War, in the...
Jane Renwick Smedburg Wilkes – Confederate nurse, founder of the first general hospital in NC
AUTHORS: Phoebe Pollitt and Camille Reese Jane Renwick Smedbury Wilkes: North Carolina Nurse Pioneer Citation: Pollitt, PA & Reese, CN (Spring, 1999). Jane Renwick Smedburg Wilkes: North Carolina Nurse Pioneer. American Association for the History of Nursing Bulletin...
Nursing in NC during the Civil War (this includes Confederate and Union nurses as well as hometown Wayside Hospitals nurses who could have been apolitical)
SUBMITTED BY: Dr. Phoebe Ann Pollitt, RN AUTHORS: Camille Reese and Phoebe Pollitt Here is an article Camille Reese and I wrote that was published in the magazine "Confederate Veteran" in 2002. There is no copyright, and [it] has been online in my website...
The life of my paternal second great-grandfather Oliver McCourry, 1843-1919
AUTHOR: Cynthia McCurry Putman Oliver and Mary Polly Tucker McCourry (click to enlarge) My second great grandfather was named Oliver McCourry. He was the grandson of Malcolm McCourry, who was in the American Revolution. Oliver was born around 1843 to Malcolm McCourry...
The Joyner Brothers of Nash County: The Stories of Little Berry, Burrell, Ira, Nathan, David, Jonas, and George Washington Joyner
AUTHOR: Randy Vester I have my 2nd Great Grandfather’s—George Washington Joyner’s—picture (attached). He was the youngest son of Nathan Thomas Joyner and Amy Land Joyner of Nash County, N.C. There were seven boys—Little Berry, Burrell Hildsman, Ira Ellis, Nathan...
Barnabas: AWOL, but honest
AUTHOR: Vickie Kutscher My Great-Grandfather is Barnabas ("Barney" or "BB") Calhoun. Barnabas Calhoun was probably born in Ashe County, North Carolina. He is buried in the Fork Mountain Cemetery just outside of Newland, North Carolina. Here are the details we have...
My 3rd Great grandfather: A Confederate Centenarian (Confederate Veteran Magazine – September 1930, page 339)
SUBMITTED BY: Gary White The words of David Franklin Aman: “Many years ago, after a great storm on the coast, beachcombers found a little boy among the wreckage washed ashore. One exclaimed “It’s a man!" He was cared for and called Philip Aman from that day. He was...
My grandfather, Joe Cosby
AUTHOR: Patrika Cos My grandfather Joe Cosby was born in 1852 as a slave in North Carolina. He was born to Joe Cosby. [The name of his] mother is unknown. Joe Cosby was only 13 yrs old when the Civil War was over. He was eventually appointed as one of Penelope Cox's...
Our Women in the War
SUBMITTED BY: Alan M. Stubbs: "This is an article published in a Wilmington, NC newspaper around 1900 by my great grandmother’s cousin." [History Center cannot locate the newspaper name or date. Her remembrance can be found as a historical essay on the website of the...
Alfred J. Stroup: “[P]ermitted to proceed to and remain within any of the Loyal States”
AUTHOR: Michael Stroupe Alfred J. Stroup was conscripted into the Confederate States Army in McDowell County, N.C. at the age of 25 in March of 1863. He was a private in Company K & Company L, 22nd Infantry Regiment, North Carolina. For unknown reasons, Alfred...
Alfred A. Stroup and the Confederate Steamer C.S.S. Virginia
AUTHOR: Michael Stroupe Alfred A. Stroup (1842-?), the son of Joseph P. Stroup, was born in Buncombe County, North Carolina but moved by 1860 to the Stroup homelands in what was then Gaston County. Alfred enlisted as a private in the Confederate Army on April 26,...
The Stroup Family Fights for the Confederacy: Albert Abner “Ab” Stroup and his sons Christopher “Columbus” Stroup & Joseph Jason “J.J.” Stroup
AUTHOR: Michael Stroupe Research conducted in 2010 and 2011 reveals that at least 75 males carrying the Stroup surname --- all direct descendants of Jacob Stroup—served with the Confederate Army, representing five southern states: North and South Carolina, Georgia,...
Old Retainer Lives on Memories of the Past
SUBMITTED BY: George E. Vick, Jr. THE LENOIR COUNTY NEWS, Wednesday, March 22, 1950 Old Retainer Lives on Memories of the Past: Born in Slavery, Ike Davis Now Served By Those He Helped Rear By Fred Whitaker In the white-painted, oldest little house on the Simon...
The Day the Yankees Came
SUBMITTED BY: George E. Vick, Jr. AUTHOR: Eliza Jackson Casteen These are stories told to me by my Aunt Cattie Parrott as she remembered the Civil War Days at the Jackson house when she was Susan Catherine Jackson, our father’s older sister. There were many more. -...
One Family, Two Sides: The Stories of Van Buren White and his brother-in-law Frazier Hoggard
SUBMITTED BY: Richard S. White, Great-Great-Grandson of Van Buren White Van Buren White, son of John “Jackey” White and Frances Hoggard, was born in 1840 in White’s District on Pine Ridge Road, Bertie County, North Carolina. They were farmers, and John “Jackey” had...
The Life and Times of Jesse Harris
SUBMITTED BY: Penny F. Maynard See the story of Jesse Harris at this link: Jesse-Harris The language from his will is below: From Microfilm at North Carolina State Archives (WB-A/171) Will of Jesse C. Harris 1863 Caldwell County, NC State of North Carolina, Caldwell...
Wilburn Campbell’s history including time served in the Civil War
SUBMITTED BY: Judith A. O'Connor Credited to Hattie Caldwell Davis book titled "Maggie Valley in the Great Smoky Mountains Historic Homes and Early Pioneers 1787-1934." Click to...
Wilburn Campbell’s Love Letter to Martha Jane Plott
SUBMITTED BY: Judith A. O'Connor (click to...
Letter From Roland Caloway Osborne to His Father Ephraim Osborne
SUBMITTED BY: Cynthia Plott-Duke In the 1970's, we were researching the Plott and Osborn histories in Haywood County, North Carolina. Part of our research included visiting with Hubert and Nannie Campbell-Plott. During one of the visits, Nannie showed us a written...
The Civil War Letters of W. D. Carr of Duplin County, North Carolina
SUBMITTED BY: Leon (Sonny) Sikes COMPILED AND EDITED BY: Robert and Elsie J. Aycock Note from the History Center: The letters at the link below were photocopied and put into PDF form from the booklet, "The Civil War Letters of W. D. Carr of Duplin County, North...
For the Record: The Story of the McCormick Brothers
AUTHOR: James Utley My great-grandmother Almena McCormick Jernigan had three brothers, John, Murphy, and Duncan McCormick, who fought in the Civil War. John McCormick, the eldest brother, enlisted in Uvalde, Texas where he was a school teacher (according to 1860 US...
The Snead Family’s Civil War Experiences
SUBMITTED BY: Candace Snead Atwood Four of the sons of Robert William Snead and Mary "Polly" Williams Snead of Johnston County, NC served in the Confederate Army: Edward Dudley Snead, MD, Captain; born Jan. 1837; died in July of 1914; buried at Antioch UMC, Four...
A Letter to a Friend, Written by Samuel P. Knight and Charles Wesley Leonard
SUBMITTED BY: Charles Wesley Starling (you can hear Mr. Starling read this letter by searching for "Great great grandfather Charles Wesley Leonard") Richmond, Virginia - June 9, 1864 To Mr. Putnam: Dear Friend, Me and Doc has been thinking a writing to you for...
Colonel Clement Dowd
SUBMITTED BY: Marsha F. Haithcock Colonel Clement Dowd was of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, N.C. Born in Richland Creek, Moore County, N.C., August 27, 1832. Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; mayor of Charlotte, N.C., 1869-71; U.S....
Captain Shubal G. Worth
This piece was submitted to the Fayetteville Observer at an unknown date and resubmitted by Marsha F. Haithcock to the North Carolina Civil War & Reconstruction History Center on January 25, 2016: Among the hundreds of North Carolina’s gallant sons who have immolated...
Pinkney H. Warren: A farmer before the War and a farmer afterward
AUTHOR: Sue Nash Cox Pinkney H. Warren resided in Buncombe County, North Carolina where he, at age nineteen, enlisted in the Confederate Army on July 22, 1861. He was mustered in as a Private, serving in Company I of the 25th Regiment, NC Troops. On April 28, 1862,...
James Columbus Bowles
SUBMITTED BY: Unknown (click to...
The Reluctant Soldier & his Son: Travis Christenberry Jernigan and John Wesley Jernigan
AUTHOR: James Utley My maternal great-great-grandfather, Travis Christenberry Jernigan, was brought up as a Quaker. When the Civil War started Travis lived in Richmond County, NC (now an area known as Scotland Co), was married to Judith O'Brien, was forty-three years...
William Burton “Burt” Joyner, Company C, 43rd NC Infantry Regiment
SUBMITTED BY: James M. Joyner (click to...
Man born on July 4 recalls Civil War
SUBMITTED BY: Great-granddaughter Dorothy Barr Corbett Dallas Caldwell Berryhill, born 1858, died 1947. See Charlotte News (1942) article at this link: Man born on July...
Sechrest family of Davidson County
AUTHOR: Robert Lee Sechrest Grandmother Mattie was 33 when she married my grandfather who was 66. He fought [in the Civil War] when he was 27 in Company C from Davidson County. He fought at Bentonville and at Fort Fisher. He died at age 73.
Autobiography and Reminiscences by Thomas Perrett
AUTHOR: Thomas Perrett PDFS of parts 1, 2, and 3 are below. Thomas Perrett part 1 Thomas Perrett part 2 Thomas Perrett part...
Ben, Penelope, a Panther, and the Cave
AUTHOR: Roger Hudson My great-great grandfather was Benjamin Allen Staton of Henderson County, NC. He was born in 1837 and served in the 35th Infantry, Company G of the Confederate Army. They were "The Rifles." The regiment trained in Raleigh and eventually joined...
The Search for Thomas Strickland and the Shohola Railroad Accident
SUBMITTED BY: Graham Kent Strickland SUMMARY WRITTEN BY: Mario Benavente The November 1986 issue of The State magazine included the story of Graham Kent Strickland’s thirty-plus year search for information about his great-great grandfather, Thomas Strickland, of...
Captain Wilson Austin White
AUTHOR: Marsha Head Goodwin My 3X Great Grandfather was Captain Wilson Austin White. He was born Jun 30, 1826 in Greensboro, Guilford Co., North Carolina. He was the son of William Austin White and Rebecca White (surnames were the same, no genealogical connection)....
Sharps carbine
AUTHOR AND SUBJECT NAME NOT AVAILABLE My great uncle told me a story his grandfather told him of being in the trenches in Petersburg and was hit by a ricochet bullet in the head lodging it under his scalp. He thought he was dead. At a previous battle he had picked up...
Edward Gray Southard, 45th NC Regiment, “The Madison Grays”
AUTHOR: Unknown Edward Gray Southard (Edwin G.) was born in 1831 and was the son of James and Ruth Gilliam Southard. He was married to Pamela Billingsly on 23 November 1860. He was a private in the 45th North Carolina Regiment called the Madison Greys. He resided...
William Pinkney Southard, 45th NC Regiment, “The Madison Greys”
AUTHOR: Unknown William "Billy" Pinkney Southard, my great-great-great grandfather, was born in 1826 and was the son of James and Ruth Gilliam Southard. He was married to Bertha Ruth Thomas on December 26, 1848. He was the father of 8 children, 5 sons and 3...
William Augustus Parvin escapes
AUTHOR: Unknown William Augustus Parvin arrives in Little Washington on New Year’s Day, 1861, just 21 years old. By birth, he is a Pennsylvanian, but he chooses to settle in a state that is bound for secession in a few months. In March he ships out on the schooner...
Green D. Smith, 48th NC State Troops, Company E
AUTHOR: Unknown Private Green D. Smith was born in 1829 in Union County and there he was conscripted on August 23, 1862 to Company E of the 48th NCST. He had barely joined the company when he became ill with smallpox in the Winter of '62/'63 and Spring of '63,...
James Spence Frazier, Company I, 23rd NC Regiment
AUTHOR: Unknown James Spence Frazier was the youngest child of eight children born to Ephraim and Elizabeth Blackwell Frazier of Granville County, North Carolina. He was the first of his brothers to volunteer for Company I, 23rd Regiment of the North Carolina...
Michael Nathaniel Beaver: “I’d have rather served time in Hell than Elmira”
AUTHOR: Unknown My great-great-great grandfather, Michael Nathaniel Beaver, was born in Rowan County in 1842, a 4th generation American whose great-great grandfather had come from Germany in the 1730's. Following in the tradition of his great-grandfather, Nicholaus...
George M. Crawford: Honored more than 150 years later
AUTHOR: Unknown Private George M. Crawford was born on his family's Iredell County farm in 1828. Never marrying, George spent his life helping his large family run their farm and after losing both parents in his teens, he helped raised his younger siblings. In 1862,...
Thomas B. Frazier, Company I, NC 23rd Infantry Regiment
AUTHOR: Unknown The fourth of five sons of Ephraim and Elizabeth Blackwell Frazier of Sassafras Fork, Granville County, North Carolina. Thomas B. Frazier enlisted in Company I, North Carolina 23rd Infantry Regiment at age 27 on July 8, 1862 or for the war. He...
Charles W. Dry (Drye), 42nd NC Regiment, Company 2nd B
AUTHOR: Unknown Charles Dry was born 1832 in Cabarrus County, NC. He was the son of John and Elizabeth Dry. He resided in Rowan County when he enlisted in the 42nd North Carolina Regiment, Company 2nd B on the 5 February 1862. He was present and accounted for...
Elizabeth Blackwell Frazier: A Mother’s Story
AUTHOR: Unknown Elizabeth Blackwell was born on Blackwell’s Mountain. She was 17 when she married 27 year old Epherium Frazier, 1820. Epherium and Elizabeth lived at Sassafrass Fork, Granville County, North Carolina. They had eight children William, Stephen, Harriet,...
John Thomas Daniels: Soldier of land and sea
AUTHOR: Unknown Orphaned as a young boy, John Thomas Daniels grew up on Roanoke Island where he was born in 1846. Born of salt as his ancestor before him, he took the sea as a small boy and remained there the rest of his life. At the very young age of 15, John...
Female blockade runner Mary “Florie” Maffitt
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 during the Civil...
Josiah Blackwell Sams harassed by Kirk’s Raiders
SUBMITTED BY: James R. Phillips, SCV Post 2093 Josiah Blackwell Sams Born 1/27/1829, Died 8/13/1908 Father – James Brown Sams, Mother – Mary Hickman 11 children – 6 boys, 5 girls Married – Rebecca Emaline Murray Sams Gap (where NC and Tenn. Meet on 1-26) named after...
Macklin Southard, 45th NC Regiment, “The Madison Greys”
AUTHOR: Unknown Macklin Southard was born 1824 and was the son of James and Ruth Gilliam Southard. He was a private in the 45th North Carolina Regiment called the Madison Greys. He resided in Rockingham County, NC. He was married to Jane Hutchinson on 2 February...
John L. Southard, 45th NC Regiment, “The Madison Greys”
AUTHOR: Unknown John L. Southard was born 1839 and was the son of James and Ruth Gilliam Southard. He was a private in the 45th North Carolina Regiment called the Madison Greys. He resided in Rockingham County, NC and enlisted in Wayne County on May 8, 1862. He...
Cephus H. Joyce, man of principle
AUTHOR: Unknown Born in Stokes County, North Carolina around 1843, Cephus H. Joyce was eager to join the cause and quickly enlisted in Stokes County in Company H of the 22nd NC State Troops on June 1, 1861 as a Private. He quickly became a leader and was elected...
John F. Agner, Company B, NC 46th Infantry Regiment
AUTHOR: Unknown John F. Agner was born 1833 and was the son of Isaac and Christiana Agner from Rowan County, NC. He was promoted to Full Sergeant on 01 Sep 1862. He was promoted to Full Private on 01 Nov 1862. He enlisted in Company B, North Carolina 46th Infantry...
Labern Isley, 45th NC Regiment, “The Troublesome Creek Boys”
AUTHOR: Unknown Labern Isley was born 1828 in Orange County, NC and moved with his family to Rockingham County. He was the son of William and Sally Isley. He was married to Frances Godsey on 25 September 1851. He was a private in the 45th North Carolina Regiment...
Robeson Soldier’s Line Continues
AUTHOR: Tim A. Sellers, Lumberton, NC [Editor's Note: This is an expanded version of "Death Reached Far Beyond the Battlefield," by Billy Sellers.] Neill Stephen Kinlaw, my great-great-grandfather on my mother’s side, was 38 when he was captured at Fort Fisher. He...
William Councilman, 8th NC Regiment, Company I
AUTHOR: Unknown William Councilman was 1837 in Orange County. He married Lydia Coble on 6 August 1859. He was a private in the 8th North Carolina Regiment, Company I. He enlisted on 5 July 1861 in Alamance County, NC. He was present and accounted for throughout the...
William J. Hill, 49th NC Regiment, Company C
AUTHOR: Unknown William J. Hill was born 1817 in Rowan County, NC. He was the son of Henry and Jane Hill. He was married three times: Milly Pool (1841), Avelina Black (1847), and Rachel Shepherd (17 July 1851). He was the father of 10 children, 6 boys and 4...
Rinehardt Emanuel Beaver: Content to Play the Fife
AUTHOR: Unknown The oldest of three boys to serve for the South, Rinehardt Emanuel Beaver or "Manuel" as he was called, was born in Rowan County in 1837. Manuel was 2nd to enlist on January 25, 1862 in Salisbury in Co. B of the 42nd NC State Troops. He was originally...
Levi Adolphus Beaver, 5th NCST, Company K
AUTHOR: Unknown Levi Adolphus Beaver was born in Rowan County in 1840, one of three brothers who would fight to defend the Southern Cause. Amazingly, all three returned home. "Dolph," as he was called by friends and family, enlisted as a Private in Company K of the...
Imprisoned at Point Lookout, Maryland
AUTHOR: Unknown Abel Reid Pitts was born to John Henry and Sarah Lolly Rogers Pitts on 30 August, 1826 in Lincoln Co., NC. Abel later lived in Burke Co and enlisted in Catawba Co into Co K, NC 35th Infantry Regiment as a private, age 36, on 15 October, 1861 for the...
Stephen Frazier, Company K, 55th Regiment, NC Infantry
AUTHOR: Unknown Stephen Frazier was the second of eight children born to Epheriam and Elizabeth Blackwell Frazier of Granville County, North Carolina. Stephen’s father died in 1840 when he was fifteen. Stephen helped his mother manage the family’s large farm. In...
William Willis Roberts, Confederate States Navy
AUTHOR: Unknown William Willis Roberts Born 1822 in Craven County, North Carolina. He was the son of John M. and Mary Jones Roberts. He was married to Elizabeth Daves in New York on August 6, 1850. Original entry into the Confederate States Navy, August 26, 1863;...
War is Fickle
AUTHOR: Unknown I am the descendant of four Confederate privates on my mother's side. I haven't researched my father's side yet. Amos Dunn, Nasrow Creech and Noah Parker were conscripted into the 5th NC State Troops on the same day in July, 1862. Two were in Co C and...
Andrew Bostian, Company K, 5th NCST
AUTHOR: Unknown Born in Rowan County in 1824, Andrew Bostian farmed until his conscription to Company K, 5th NCST on August 8, 1862 in Statesville. He would see a fair amount of action with the 5th and would be wounded in the hand at Brandy Station, Virginia. He was...
Lt. Hugh Caldwell Bennett
SUBMITTED BY: Joe Avery Hugh Caldwell Bennett (14 Dec. 1832 - 3 March 1907) was the son of George Stepto Bennett and Elizabeth Newland Bennett of Iredell County, NC. He enlisted in Company F, North Carolina 3rd Cavalry Regiment on 07 Oct. 1861 as a Corporal and was...
Merrell Rimmer: A Young Soldier lost in battle
AUTHOR: Unknown Merrell Rimmer was born to Samuel Richard Rimmer and Elizabeth Blalock Rimmer, of Hurdle Mills, Person County, North Carolina. Elijah Hasten Rimmer, his eldest brother, enlisted in the 50th Regiment, Co. A, on 15 March 1863. Merrell, the next in the...
Samuel Thomas Gann: From Shoemaker to Soldier
AUTHOR: Unknown Samuel Thomas Gann was born in Rockingham County, North Carolina in 1824. He grew up running his own farm and had acquired the trade of shoemaker along the way. As the war approached, his age and family kept him at home when many of the young men...
Elijah C. Frazier, Company K, 55th Regiment NC Infantry
AUTHOR: Unknown Elijah C. Frazier was listed as a farmer in Granville County, North Carolina and enrolled in the Confederate Army on May 6, 1862. He reported to Camp Mangum on May 30, 1862. He was assigned to Co. K 55 Regiment North Carolina Infantry. He is listed...
Burwell Jackson Moore, lifelong Confederate
AUTHOR: Unknown With little to his name and no family, Burwell Jackson Moore, born near Danville, Virginia in 1846, decided to join in the war effort. He enlisted in Northampton County, North Carolina on January 6, 1863 as a Private in Company A, 5th NC Cavalry (63rd...
Corporal Finley Thomas Sale: A Wandering Soul
AUTHOR: Unknown Corporal Finley Thomas Sale was born in 1836 in Wilkes County, NC. Marrying at 21, he would father 4 children before entering into Confederate service. He enlisted July 7, 1862 in Guilford County as a Private in Company D of the 5th NC Cavalry (63rd...
Alpheus Branch, Company I, NC 1st Infantry Regiment
AUTHOR: Unknown Alpheus Branch was born 1843 in Halifax County. He was the son of Samuel and Mary Branch. He enlisted in Company I, North Carolina 1st Infantry Regiment on 11 Jul 1861. He was mustered out on 12 Nov 1861. He then enlisted in Company G, North...
“Don’t forget what they did to Bryant”: Aunt Nancy tells a Civil War story
AUTHOR: Gary Neil Carden When I was a child, I often went with my grandfather, Samuel Arthur Carden, to visit his mother “Aunt Nancy” Gibson Carden, who lived in Cowee, which is ten or twelve miles beyond Franklin, NC. Aunt Nancy (who was nicknamed "Babby"), was...
Salisbury Prison: North Carolina’s Andersonville
AUTHOR: Joel R. Stegall The American Civil War has been called a lot of things, but two descriptions are rather inventive: The Late Unpleasantness;[1] and, An Objective History of the War of Northern Aggression.[2] Whatever label one may apply to that American...
Letters from Thomas J. Young to his father John Young, Jr. for whom Youngsville was named
SUBMITTED BY: Ginny Kellum Original post about the Young family Kellum - Letter 1 Kellum - Letter 2 Kellum - Letter from Thomas Jefferson Young to his father John...
Henry Monroe Brown, Company E of the 5th Regiment, NC Infantry
SUBMITTED BY: Michael P. Brown He was a volunteer for the Confederate Army, July 3, 1861, at age 20 in Rowan County. He fought in the Battle of Manassas and Williamsburg before he was taken prisoner in Maryland in 1862. He fell ill in prison. He served as a nurse in...
William Everett Miller
SUBMITTED BY: Anne Campbell William Everett Miller's story "A SHORT SKETCH OF MY LIFE UP TO THE CIVIL WAR, WHEN I WAS EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE" (see links to PDFs below): anne campbell anne campbell 2...
Three cousins murdered by Yankees in the Old Albemarle region of North Carolina
AUTHOR: Chip Stokes (from his blog) http://blueandgrayancestors.blogspot.com/2013/08/three-cousins-murdered-by-yankees-in.html
Great-grandmother’s family hid in the woods when Sherman’s army came through Sampson Co.
AS TOLD TO MATTHEW SLISIK BY ALAN ELDRIDGE III Audio file 3 minutes 55 seconds
Great great grandfather Charles Wesley Leonard
AS TOLD TO MATTHEW SLISIK BY CHARLES WESLEY STARLING Audio file 6 minutes 45 seconds "Poor man from North Carolina, did not own slaves and wasn't a secessionist, so I think it gives good context of the average man in the fight." This is a letter he wrote on June 9,...
My great-great-grandfather William Miller, Buffalo, NY, 1st NY Light Artillery Battery I
AS TOLD TO MATTHEW SLISIK BY: David Peglow Audio file 19 minutes 47 seconds
Moses W. Smith, Pvt. in Company B, 1st Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
AS TOLD TO MATTHEW SLISIK BY: Abby Mulliss Audio file: 1 min 15 secs
The Story of Hilliard Gains
SUBMITTED BY: Pat Garber Hilliard Gains was an African-American Freedman who marched to war with his childhood friend, Sgt-Major Newsom Edward Jenkins, and other members of the Roanoke Minutemen, CSA. I first heard of him in stories told by my mother and uncles....
Little known facts on Tar Heel Confederate soldiers in Elmira, NY
SUBMITTED BY: Tom Fagart True to the Tar Heel Confederate Solider Motto: “First, Farthest, Foremost, and Last” Board Member Friends of Elmira Civil War Prison Camp, Elmira, NY. www.elmiraprisoncamp.com, Member Friends of Fort Fisher, Kure Beach, NC,...
The last surviving Fort Fisher man is a Tarheel: Pvt. George Washington Benson
SUBMITTED BY: Tom Fagart Although not a prisoner in Elmira, the story of this Fort Fisher survivor should be told. Pvt. George Washington Benson, Co H, 36th Regiment, 2nd NC Artillery is the last Confederate survivor from Fort Fisher. Pvt. Benson was born 4 Nov...
Pvt. Thomas O. Hildreth, 3rd Company G, 40th Regiment, 3rd NC Artillery
SUBMITTED BY: Tom Fagart Pvt. Thomas O. Hildreth was a native of Ansonville, Anson County, NC. Thomas was born abt. 1820. Prior to the War Between The States, Thomas had served in the Mexican War. In March 1847, he enlisted to serve in the Mexican War as an...
Pvt. Henry Vines, the luckiest Fort Fisher man
SUBMITTED BY: Tom Fagart The luckiest Fort Fisher man just may be Pvt. Henry Vines, 3rd Co G, 36th Regiment, 2nd NC Artillery. Pvt. Vines was born 5 July 1843, enlisted 30 Apr 1862, Brunswick County, Wilmington, NC at age 20. He is listed as prisoner #597 arriving...
From Fort Fisher, North Carolina to Elmira, New York
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...
The death of two Tarheel Confederate brothers and only sons
SUBMITTED BY: Tom Fagart This is the story of Franklin and William Cauble, the only sons of Joseph and Nancy Hudson Cauble of Albemarle, Stanly County, NC I am sure that when Franklin Cauble of Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina was earning his living driving a...
Uriah R. Parish
AS TOLD TO MATTHEW SLISIK BY: Mark Love Audio file 2 minutes 35 seconds Uriah Parish was a farmer. He lived with his father and family; he was one of 10 children on a farm in Moore Co (now Lee Co). At the time of the war he signed up for Company I, 19th NC, 2nd NC...
William Andrew Love / John Wesley Love
AS TOLD TO MATTHEW SLISIK BY: Mark Love Audio file (4 minutes 5 seconds) They were from Moore County and lived on a farm with their father and siblings. Their mother died in 1854. In the 1860 census J. W. Love is still living with Jesse, but between 1860 and 1862 he...
Sampson the enslaved man
AUTHOR: Billy A. Dunlap Our family owned slaves before the Civil War. One of them named Sampson came to great-great-grandpa James Dunlap after the war and told his former master that he did not know anything about freedom or what it meant. He had been born on the...
Aunt Loudy Wright
AUTHOR: Bill Arthur Dunlap Aunt Loudy Wright was the oldest sister of John Washington Dunlap, my grandpa's daddy. She was born in 1822 and lived to 1920. Mr. Wright's sister married my great-great-grandpa, thus becoming J. W. Dunlap's mother. I.e., brother and sister...
Looking Backwards, by F. L. Castex, Sr.
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...
Yankee demanded a drink
SUBMITTED BY: John McKinnon I asked my brother Sandy, who knew my great-grandmother, if she ever told stories of life during the War. She would have been in her 20's during the War, and her husband was off fighting. He said only one [story] about throwing buttermilk...
Letter written by David Black (1836-1876) to his older brother Alex (1828-1905) during the Civil War
SUBMITTED BY: Ruth Dutton Hill [Note: David Black was a teacher, farmer, and Major in the Civil War.] Sunday night, December 25th, 1864, Alex Black Dear Sir: Christmas night finds me home again all lonely and peacefully situated. We have had company today saw Betty...
My great-grandfather, General Edmund Kirby-Smith, last Confederate general to surrender
AUTHOR: Kirby Brown I've always been glad that my name was Kirby. My great-grandfather, General Edmund Kirby-Smith, a West Point graduate, was the last Confederate general to surrender at the end of the Civil War. There were only seven full generals, and he was one...
Virginia Lee Binns of New Kent County, VA
AUTHOR: Julia Breckinridge My grandmother Virginia Lee Binns was the 13th child born at Silver Hall, New Kent County, VA, just up the road from Jamestown. I saw the original charter for her family's land grant signed by King George in 1624. Yankee soldiers came up...
James Jarrell
SUBMITTED BY: James Jarrell I was born in Guilford County. My grandfather was a slave in the Guilford area of Pleasant Garden which is not very far from James Haley's roots in Alamance County. I did not grow up hearing a lot of stories and related memories of Civil...
A Southerner learns she is kin to President U. S. Grant
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...
John Henry Stone and Martha Ann Baughn
SUBMITTED BY: Catherine Bowers Southworth This document is an excerpt from “Letters Home to Baughn’s Mountain” transcribed in 1979 by Ellen Flythe Frontis Cross, great-granddaughter of John Henry and Martha Ann Baughn Stone. Some of these letters are heart-wrenching;...
Point Lookout, MD claims another soldier
SUBMITTED BY: Katrina Anne Herman Avery Two brothers of my great-grandmother, Susan Young, died while fighting in the Civil War. One was John Young, born in 1843 to Henry and Lavenia Martin Young in Catawba County, NC. At 19 years old, John enlisted in the...
Needham Brown, one of six sons who enlisted in the Confederate Army
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...
Western NC Confederates: The Laughter Family of Henderson County
SUBMITTED BY: Jack Travis The Laughter family of Henderson County, NC provided the Confederacy with nine men, two brothers and seven cousins, to fight for Southern independence. They were all farmers. Many of the cousins were in their teens and enlisted together in...
William J. ‘Billy’ Parker, Caney Fork Confederate Soldier
AUTHOR: Dan Johnson Billy Parker was the first born son of John A. Parker, and his second wife, Nancy Phillips.(1) John married Nancy on 18 November 1844(2) in (what was then, still) Haywood county. Billy followed less than 3 months later being born on 18 February...
John Aiken of Caney Fork, Jackson County, NC
AUTHOR: Dan Johnson JOHN H. AlKEN, son of THOMAS (1825-ca 1900) and REBECCA (HOXIT) AlKEN (1831-1912)1 was born January 8, 1855 in Cherryfield, Henderson Co., NC, the fifth of what would be eight children. His father left the family sometime between 1860 and 1870....
Uncle Wah Clark of Crossnore, NC
AUTHOR: Dan Johnson Words like 'colorful,' 'unique,' 'rugged individualist,' etc. come to mind in trying to diplomatically describe my ancestor Warsaw Columbus 'Wah' Clark of Crossnore, NC but the honest truth of the matter would bring us closer to 'unsavory,'...
Granny Beck Aiken: The Witch of Caney Fork
AUTHOR: Dan Johnson Genealogical research often reveals some interesting, even contradictory characters and such is the case with "Granny Beck" Aiken. Nothing is known about her childhood or youth. Although the census taker for Jackson co. in 1880 declared that...
Neighbor to Neighbor: A Memoir of Family, Community, and Civil War in Appalachian North Carolina
SUBMITTED BY: Larry Dale Wilson This anthology was printed in 2007 by the Center for Appalachian Studies, Appalachian State University, Boone NC 28608 edited by Sandra L. Bullard and Leila E. Weinstein. This publication chronicles the story of my GGG Grandfather, Lt....
John H. Hopkins
AUTHOR: Howard J. Sparks, Sr. My great grandfather John H. Hopkins was from Patrick County, Virginia. John was the son of William Hopkins and Sarah/Sallie Snyder Hopkins. Between 1850 and 1860 it is believed the family moved just across the state line into Stokes...
The Deposition of William Jacobs of Rockingham, NC, for the Southern Claims Commission
SUBMITTED BY: John Jacobs My ancestor William Jacobs was a mulatto farmer in Richmond County during the Civil War. He was known in the county to be a Union loyalist. His father, Zachariah Jacobs, was a patriot of the Revolutionary War, from Brunswick County, NC, and...
My 2g grandfather: Union League Commander Austin Flood
AUTHOR: Shelton Tucker Genealogy: My sister Dee, the genealogist of the family, told me that a respected historian in Greenville, NC said that my 2g grandfather, Reverend Austin Flood, was like the MLK of his day. Every since that time, we incessantly started...
Alson Gordon: The Persistent Soldier
SUBMITTED BY: Phyllis Gordon Womble In June 1861, Alson Gordon of Haywood county left his wife and three children behind to join Company F of the 25th NC Infantry Regiment: a company that enlisted three of my other ancestors on the same day. Gordon’s time in the 25th...
Beyond the Battlefield: the Inman Brothers of the 62nd Regiment
SUBMITTED BY: Phyllis Gordon Womble The story of Haywood County’s Inman family has reached far beyond the Carolinas, thanks to the star-studded cast of 2003’s Cold Mountain. While the film was inspired by the true story of William Pinkney Inman and two of his brothers...
The Cold Mountain Men: The Inman Brothers’ Civil War Story
SUBMITTED BY: Phyllis Gordon Womble The Inman family of Haywood County, NC possesses strong ties to the American Civil War having committed all six sons to the Haywood Highlanders Company in 1861 as a part of the Confederate Army. Most famously, William Pinkney...
Daughter of the Confederacy
SUBMITTED BY: Shirley Corn Reagan My husband's great grandmother was a daughter of Confederacy. She was a Franklin from Elkin, NC. My husband passed this past May 15, 2018. I have to research her story. Her name could have Ann or Elizabeth Franklin. I'm sure she went...
Yankee Spy – Timothy McKean or Is It Charles Hawkins?
SUBMITTED BY: Stokely Caldwell There is an interesting Civil War story regarding a young man from New Hampshire named Timothy McKean who, after many adventures, ended up in North Carolina and changed his name to Charles Hawkins. Timothy R. McKean was born in 1839 in...
Private A. S. (Amos Snyder) Ross
SUBMITTED BY: Stokely Caldwell Amos Snyder Ross was born in 1837 in Union County North Carolina, the son of Thomas Griffin Ross (1806-1873) and Ola Maness (1809-1865). Amos married Mary A. Kiser, daughter of Marcus Kiser and Mary Howell Kiser with a Cabarrus County,...
Ransom Naylor, A Civil War Soldier
AUTHOR: Durin Naylor The Year was 1840 when Ransom Naylor was born to Washington and Amy Naylor in the Mingo Township district of Sampson County, North Carolina. Ransom had 9 siblings, 4 brothers and 5 sisters. As a young boy Ransom worked the family farm. By 1850...
Miles Howcott and Family
SUBMITTED BY: Francis Howcutt From the website "Howcutt and Howcott Family History," copyright 2018. Miles Howcott was a soldier and farmer. He is an ancestor of a large proportion of the present-day Howcotts in America. Miles and his son William Henry were...
“I aimed a bullet at his heart”
AUTHOR: Edward S. Alexander, Emerging Civil War SUBMITTED BY: Deborah England I found this story about my GG grandfather on the blog, Emerging Civil War. It was written by Edward S. Alexander. As a descendant of the original settlers of Western NC, on both sides of...
Simon D. Davis statement to his granddaughter
SUBMITTED BY: Lisa Jillani My aunt, Esta Davis Serber, was born in 1900 and alive when her grandfather, Simon D. Davis,talked to her about his time in the Sandy Run Yellow Jackets out of Cleveland Co. She passed the statement on to me that Simon told her. He said, "I...
Nelson Tift: Confederate Navy Captain
SUBMITTED BY: W. S. Mann (see also "Nelson and Ava Tift" story) Nelson Tift was born in Groton, CT on July 23, 1810. In 1826, he moved to Key West, FL with his brother, Asa Tift, for business exploration ventures. In 1830, he moved to Charleston, SC to test Southern...
Archibald McNeill, Sr. and the Moore County Independents
SUBMITTED BY: Norma Blake Jones Archibald McNeill Sr. was born March 4, 1818 in the Bensalem area of Moore County, NC. He was married to Jane Brewer, and they had eight children (born between 1842 and 1865). McNeill enlisted in Moore County on July 11, 1862 as a...
The Skirmish at Wilson’s Store
SUBMITTED BY: Richard Harding Davis Less than a quarter mile North, as the crow flies, from Perry Brown's Furniture Factory Outlet World on 200 South lies a historically significant location in Union County. On March 1, 1865, near the intersection of Bigham and Brady...
“A Wagon Train Once Camped on the Public Square”
SUBMITTED BY: Richard Harding Davis A Wagon Train Once Camped on the Public Square – from the June 28, 1910 issue of MONROE JOURNAL (Union County, N.C.) The fine elms that surround the public square, none of which should ever be cut down, were planted before the war....
Oliver Arms, Sr.
AUTHOR: Joe Mode Oliver Arms, Sr. is my 3rd great grandfather, whose daughter, Melissa Arms, married Wade Green (Cocke Co., TN) Wade Green is my 2nd great grandfather and member of Company C, 8th Tennessee Infantry, U.S. Melissa Arms m was born on 5 November 1851-2,...
My great-grandfathers in the Civil War: Page/Ringgold, maternal great-grandfathers
SUBMITTED BY: Joel Ringgold Stegall My fourth great-grandfather, John Sampson “Samp” Page, the son of John and Mary Autry Page of Sampson County, was single, 24 years old and living with his parents when the war broke out. He enlisted and was assigned on 04 Nov 1861...
My great-grandfathers in the Civil War: Stegall/Stack, paternal great-grandfathers
AUTHOR: Joel Ringgold Stegall By the time the Civil War began in 1861, Great-Granddaddy Thomas Bottom Stegall was already 47 or 48 years old, too old for combat duty. As the war dragged on, and North Carolina began to run out of young men to give their lives for this...
Gathings Family of Anson County
SUBMITTED BY: Steve Bailey I was told by my cousin Emma Gathings Goodwin years ago that our ancestor Charles Gathings died in the early 1860’s when he was about 70 years old. When Sherman’s Army marched through Anson County during the time period of March 3rd through...
Jordan Bennett
AUTHOR: Charles Brown My wife's great grandfather, Jordan Bennett, was from Duplin County, North Carolina. He is listed in Family Search as being a member of the 8th US Colored Heavy Artillery. He enlisted on Jun 25, 1864 at Paducah, KY as Corporal; he was 20 years...
The Swallows
AUTHOR OF THE PDF AT THE LINK BELOW: Albert Ross Hogue (1873-1978), The History of Fentress County, Tennessee SUBMITTED BY: Mona Vorhees Mehas My Civil War Connection (one of many): I am an amateur genealogist. I retired from teaching in the public schools in 2010,...
Jacob Bryant: Reportedly the Only Documented Lumbee Indian to have Fought in the Confederate Army
SUBMITTED BY: Phyllis Bryant Lowry Here is a story about my Native American ancestor Jacob Bryant, from an article that was published in The Robesonian on May 29, 2009: In Red Springs, Cannon fire echoed through the trees at the Long Swamp Indian Cemetery on a recent...
Letters from Anthony Brisson to Wife Nancy
SUBMITTED BY: Shannon Walters Jacobson This is my 4th great uncle who wrote letters to his sisters and wife, Nancy. He also mentions my 3x great grandfather, Paris Guyton, and my 4th great Uncle Joseph Guyton. All lived in Bladen County. His last letter was December...
Prusha’s Story – A Slave Memory
AUTHOR: Barbara Krebs [This is in response to a] post of June 13 on the Tyrrell County Genealogy page [on Facebook] asking for Civil War era stories. The following is from a story that my grandmother used to tell me in my childhood during the 1960s, one which I...
William Flack Family
AUTHOR: W. Edgar Flack (sent by LuVerne Haydock) This appears in Ivarea Flack's "Flack Family Heritage" and was written by W. Edgar...
Aunt Mary’s Cow
AUTHOR: Dorothy Killian My Grandmother b: 1877 told me this story: Some Union soldiers came to her Aunt Mary Watson Triplett's house in Wilkes County, N. C.They made her cook a meal for them. One Union soldier sat in the kitchen while she cooked with his gun laying...
Civil War service records of James Parker and his brothers
AUTHOR: Jarrod Parker James Parker, the son of John and Balinda Parker, was born between 1827 and 1833 in Laurens County, South Carolina. He moved with his family to Buncombe County, North Carolina between 1845 and 1850. They settled in the Lower Hominy Valley, near...
Professor Luther Rice Mills of Wake Forest University
AUTHOR: Kristina (last name not provided) I am a descendant of Lieutenant Luther Rice Mills of the 26th Virginia Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia. While he lived in Virginia at the time of the War, I thought that you might find his story interesting as after the...
Company H, 26th NC Regiment
AUTHOR: Lacy Garner, Jr. I have done considerable research on Moore County's Company H, 26th NC Regiment, known as the "The Moore Independents." I have put all that info into a website, http://www.companyh26th.com. There are several good stories referenced on my...
My Grandfather: Benjamin Greene
AUTHOR: Mary Caroline Greene Robbins My grandfather Benjamin Greene was born in Blowing Rock, North Carolina on August 1, 1844. He had a twin brother named Joseph. Benjamin Greene fought in the Civil War for the Confederate Army. I do not know rank or where he...
First Lieutenant Valentine Jackson Palmer, MD, C.S.A. 09 February 1819 – 23 June 1915
AUTHOR: William Lea Palmer, Colonel, Infantry, US Army, Retired, Great-Grandson of First Lieutenant Valentine Jackson Palmer, MD, C.S.A. Valentine Jackson Palmer, MD, born in Marion County, South Carolina, a graduate of Jefferson Medical School, Philadelphia,...
First Lieutenant / Captain David Ramsour Hoyle, C.S.A. 15 December 1830 – 13 June 1914
AUTHOR: William Lea Palmer, Colonel, Infantry, USA, Retired David Ramsour Hoyle of Lawndale, Cleveland County, North Carolina, joined the Army of the Confederate States of America [C.S.A] commissioned a 1st Lieutenant of Infantry, 10 October 1861, promoted to...
A Wife’s Letter to her Husband during the Civil War
AUTHOR: Michael Stroupe October 20 [no year] State of North Caroliner Dear husbe [husband], I take my pen in hand to drope [drop] you a few lines to let you no [know] that we are all well at this time. I pray to God these few lines may find you well and doing well. I...
Griffin Family of Anson County, NC
AUTHOR: Steve Bailey Griffin Family History by Fred M. Griffin, Raymond C. Griffin, & Lee Griffin – Published in 1949 – Alexander Griffin, son of William Griffin & grandson of Thomas Griffin, joined the Union Army in Mississippi when Sherman’s Army marched east from...
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Phone: 910-491-0602
Email: info@nccivilwarcenter.org
824 Branson Street
Post Office Box 53865
Fayetteville, NC 28305