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African American men in Anson County NC who received a pension for their service in the Civil War
SUBMITTED BY: Steve Bailey (On microfilm at the Hampton B. Allen Library in Wadesboro NC)Reverend Sandy Ingram Born 1841 Died September 6, 1936 – 4th South Carolina Regiment – Services to Thomas J. IngramShadrack Streeater Born 1840’s Died September 20, 1937Michael...
Jonas & Rosa Griffin: A Civil War Veteran Wounded, A Widow Scorned
AUTHOR: Nia Jai I still find it amazing that I had an ancestor who fought in the Civil War. But it's mind-blowing to know that I had not one, but two (and maybe more)! The information surrounding my great-great-great grandfather Isaac Bain(s) was intriguing to say the...
The Griffin Legacy of Martin County, NC: Jonas Griffin, A Civil War Veteran
Enlisted: 11 March 1864 (Norfolk, VA/Washington, NC) Mustered Out: 11 February 1867 (Raleigh, NC) AUTHOR: Nia Jai Originally, this story was supposed to be about the things I'd already learned about the Griffins. But as I pulled together information for the post, I...
“Reconstruction of Our County”
SUBMITTED BY: Judith O'Connor Excerpt from a book written by the late Hattie Caldwell Davis, titled "Civil War Letters and Memories from the Great Smokey Mountains." Copyright 1999 Hattie C. Davis, Second Edition. In the late spring and summer of 1865 our soldiers...
Civil War Grandfather
Submitted by: Jeanie Lewis Parker My grandmother Lizzie Franklin told me lots of stories when I was growing up in Madison County NC. One of which was of her grandfather William "Bill” Gentry. Now we all know that NC was divided in their loyalties to the south in the...
The Last Battleground: The Civil War Comes to North Carolina.
The North Carolina Civil War & Reconstruction History Center sponsored a presentation by Philip Gerard, author of the book The Last Battleground: The Civil War Comes to North Carolina on Thursday, March 28, 2019 in Fayetteville, NC. Watch the entire...
William Burton “Burt” Joyner
AUTHOR: James Marshall Joyner (Click image to enlarge) In 1838, Hilliard and Penninah (spelled “Penina” in some records) Johnston Joyner had a son, William Burton “Burt” Joyner. Burt and his parents resided in the eastern portion of Nash County, which became Wilson...
Robert M. Stroup and Peter Lafayette Stroup: Brothers Who Died at Point Lookout
AUTHOR: Sid Stroupe and Mike Stroupe Joseph Franklin and Eliza Moore Stroup had nine children, including two sons—Robert M. Stroup and Peter Lafayette Stroup—who served in the Civil War. In November 1862, Joseph passed away, but before their father’s passing, Robert...
Rufus Lott, Nancy, and James Zebulon Stroup: A Family Affected by War
AUTHOR: Michael Stroupe On September 11, 1861, nineteen-year-old Rufus Lott Stroup volunteered for the Confederate Army at Buncombe County, North Carolina. For unknown reasons, he enlisted again on May 13, 1862, in the same county. He served as a Private in Company H...
Philip R. Stroup, 1831-1862
AUTHOR: Sid Stroupe and Mike Stroupe At the age of 31, on July 4, 1862, Philip R. Stroup enlisted in the Confederate Army at Lincolnton, Lincoln County. He was a Private in Company G of the 57th Infantry Regiment (North Carolina). Shortly after his enlistment, on...
Moses Stroup, Jr.: a POW who survived being captured three times
AUTHOR: Sid Stroupe and Mike Stroupe (Click photo to enlarge) On July 30, 1861, Moses Stroup Jr. was twenty-two and lived in Gaston County, southeast of White Pine, which is currently Cherryville, North Carolina, when he enlisted with the Confederate Army for one...
Major General William Dorsey Pender: The Fighting Tarheel from Tarboro
SUBMITTED BY: Jack Travis William Dorsey Pender was born on February 6, 1834, to James and Sarah Routh Pender, on the family’s plantation near Tarboro, NC. On July 1, 1850, at the age of sixteen, he went to the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY. Pender...
William Cicero and Rebecca Miller Taylor’s Family Bible
SUBMITTED BY: Barbara Taylor **About the Picture (click to enlarge): William Cicero Taylor and Rebecca Miller Taylor’s family, taken about 1910/1911 in Peak Creek, North Carolina before they moved to Virginia. The family members are: Back row (left to right): Charles...
Ben Casey, 3rd NC Heavy Artillery
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 that...
Sherman’s Cavalry
AUTHOR: Michael Williams My family still resides on the farm that has been in our family since the 1700s. Near the end of the Civil War, family lore has it that Sherman's cavalry camped on the farm and in anticipation of its arrival, g-g-grandfather had ledges dug...
A soldier froze in a swamp, making his way home
AUTHOR: Phil Powell My father used to tell me a story about a family member who fought in the Civil War and died while making his way home by freezing to death in the swamp. I always thought the mystery soldier was from the Phillips side of the Powell family, but...
A branch from the Foushee family tree
SUBMITTED BY: Brenda Oakes Much has been written about the elusive but intriguing mystery surrounding the parentage of Adnah Campbell Foushee, who was born March 5, 1801, presumably near Bushy Fork near the Double Creek in Person County, NC. Speculation points to two...
December 2018 Newsletter
Dear History Center Friend and Supporter: We have a lot to tell you about our 2018 progress! Please click on the title above and then the link that follows this sentence to read our most recent update: December 2018...
Moses S. Stroup, 1839-1910
AUTHOR: Sid Stroupe and Mike Stroupe On June 5, 1861, Moses S. Stroup was a twenty-one-year-old farmer, living in Marion, McDowell County, North Carolina, who decided to enlist in the same county he was living in. He was a private in Company K and Company L of the...
“I think they died fighting for a just cause”: Joseph Goldinger’s Letters to His Parents
SUBMITTED BY: Fredric William Booth Introduction: These letters written by Joseph Goldinger, a private in Company E of the 103rd Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, while he was stationed in North Carolina. Joseph was about twenty years old when he enlisted, for...
Lyman Hannaford’s Letters Home: “Things are getting quieted down again in the Old North State”
SUBMITTED BY: Willa Atkinson My Great-Grandmother Elizabeth Knox Lanigan (1905-2005) preserved the letters that Lyman Beecher Hannaford wrote during his Civil War experience; she had them safely tucked away in a drawer for decades. The letters were given to her by...
Original Letter from Andrew J Dooling to his mother Mary H Dooling
SUBMITTED BY: Teresa Saville Matern Written while Andrew was in Weldon, NC on 30 December 1962: (click letter to enlarge) "Dear Mother I take my pen in hand to let you now that I am well at this time hoping the few lines may find you all well and doing well I will...
Daniel Nazareth was Daniel Huff, A Formerly Enslaved Man Who Fought for the Union
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...
Benjamin Franklin Ringgold
SUBMITTED BY: Joel Stegall Benjamin Franklin Ringgold is the earliest Ringgold I can positively identify as an ancestor. Most of what I know about him is from his biography written by his daughter-in-law, my Grandmother Jemima Page Ringgold, my mother’s mother....
Brothers Levin J. and Eugene Stroupe: Both fought, but only one survived the War
AUTHORS: Sid Stroupe and Mike Stroupe Born in Forsyth County, Eugene and Levin J. Stroupe both served in the Confederate Army. Eugene Stroupe was 27 years old when he was conscripted into the CSA on July 8, 1862 in Forsyth County, North Carolina. Eugene served as a...
Captured on April 8, 1865: John Marshall Stroup
AUTHOR: Sid Stroupe and Mike Stroupe On November 9, 1861, John Marshall Stroup, at only seventeen years old, volunteered with the CSA in Buncombe County. The son of Joseph P. Stroup and born in 1844, John was described as having a dark complexion, dark hair, and...
From Oxfordshire to North Carolina, a journey of discovery
AUTHOR: Malcolm Peter Hoare Richard McDowell Hord, son of John and Sarah Hord was born 22 November 1833 in Rutherford, North Carolina. Richard was a master carpenter, Justice of the Peace, farmer and veteran of the Confederacy. Richard was married three times and had...
Richmond County, NC during the Civil War
SUBMITTED BY: Steve Bailey Civil War skirmish: Union troops overrun Confederates in Rockingham July 29, 2015 Richmond County Daily Journal First Posted: 2/28/2015 It was 150 years ago on March 7, 1865, that Union Army troops came charging down Sandhill Road (which is...
James Daniel Moore, Company F 26th NC : The First Day At Gettysburg
SUBMITTED BY: Glenn Land On October 11, 1897, in an interview with “The Morning Post” (of Raleigh, NC.) James Daniel Moore spoke of his experience during the first day’s fighting at Gettysburg. Listed as only 15 in the 1860 census, he enrolled on 7/15/1861 in his...
Winnie Aldridge Suggs: Personal Experience of the Civil War
SUBMITTED BY: Linda Lancaster Harmon MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF WAR By Mrs. Winnie Suggs SOURCE: Wilson Daily Times 3 February 1914 I was a mere schoolgirl when Schofield's army came through this part of the country at the close of the war, but I was well grown and I...
John E. Stroup: A Soldier at 16
AUTHOR: Sid Stroupe and Mike Stroupe John E. Stroup was born in 1845 and the son of David Rufus Stroup. According to the 1860 Census, John lived in Jackson County, N.C. On August 31, 1861, sixteen-year-old John Stroup enlisted as a Private in Company F, 29th Infantry...
Thomas Wooten Hill
AUTHOR: Linda Lancaster Harmon Thomas Hill entered in to the Civil War conflict on 13 MAY 1861 Fighting was hard and he died at Chancellorsville, Virginia on Mar 5, 1863. Born Oct 5, 1830
Parrot Nathan Hill
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...
Joshua Mewborn, the Fireside Preacher
AUTHOR: Linda Lancaster Harmon Joshua was a Civil War Veteran. He was in the 40th Regiment Artillery. He served as a Deacon of Mewborn Church for 40 years (on gravestone). He was called, "The Fireside Preacher". He had three brothers who were preachers: George,...
Mary Edmundson Aldridge: A Woman of Courage
AUTHOR: Linda Lancaster Harmon Mary had blonde hair and is described as being "very queenly" and "an unusual woman who could make more money than nine-tenths of the men." (Heritage Book of Wayne County) This was an incredible woman of courage who left her home three...
John Henry Suggs played for Stonewall Jackson
AUTHOR: Linda Lancaster Harmon John Suggs' elder brother Joshua Franklin Suggs belonged to the North Carolina Volunteer Troops. Before Confederate Volunteers were called for, these troops were ordered below New Bern to safeguard the coast. Joshua had just been...
Lockett Ringold (1828-1862)
AUTHOR: Marc Francis Roddin Lockett resided in Pitt County, North Carolina, and engaged in farming. His older son James was a teenager at the time that the Civil War broke out, so James enlisted. After ten months of service, James was discharged. With the son safely...
James Ringgold (1844-1914)
AUTHOR: Marc Francis Roddin James was a teenage farmer when the Civil War broke out, and he enlisted into the North Carolina 27th Infantry (H Company) in Pitt County, where he lived. He served as a private in E Company for about ten months in 1861 and 1862, which...
John Herring Wetherington (1833-1910)
AUTHOR: Marc Francis Roddin John Herring Wetherington enlisted in the Civil War on June 30, 1862 as a private and became company cook. The nearest he came to a Yankee bullet was when the handle of a pail of food he was carrying was shot in two. When the War was over,...
African American Civil War Soldiers born in Richmond County NC but lived their remaining years in Anson County NC
AUTHOR: Steve Bailey (Click photo to enlarge) Amos Powell was an African American gentleman who apparently was born in Richmond County NC about 1841. He was a slave of Charles Powell. Amos & Charles Powell both served in the Civil War Company D of the 23rd Richmond...
The Snow Brothers
AUTHOR: Joshua N. James My great-great-grandfather Abner Lee Snow was born to Richard Snow and Sally Tucker Snow in 1843 in Surry County, North Carolina. Surry County was then and is still very rural. The landscape is dominated by the looming presence of Pilot...
Alexander Cary McAlister & Adelaide Worth McAlister
AUTHOR: Bradley R. Foley (The following excerpt is from Mr. Foley’s book Letters Home: The Civil War Correspondence of Lieutenant Colonel Alexander C. McAlister) (Click photo to enlarge) “Following his graduation from the University of North Carolina, [Alexander...
Sylvanus David Davis & Jane Transou Davis
AUTHOR: Henry L. Yarbrough (Click photo to enlarge) Sylvanus David Davis was born in Surry County, North Carolina on September 08, 1832. Before the Civil War, he came to Pfafftown, N.C. around 1857 and lived in the home of A.C. [Adalaid Cooper] Transou. After that...
The Battle Flag Comes Home
AUTHOR: Joseph R. Suggs [Written for The State, vol. 36, May 1, 1969 by Joseph R. Suggs] The battle flag of the Randolph Hornets—Company M, 22nd North Carolina Militia, CSA—has come home again to Randolph County from whence it departed over one hundred years ago. In...
Civil War Soldier from Alabama shot & killed in Anson County NC on March 5, 1865
AUTHOR: Steve Bailey I surveyed this church cemetery in 1997 and discovered this lonely grave and have always wondered about the soldier. Some of my questions being who erected the headstone? Was it one soldier by the name of Maurice Spradling or was it two soldiers...
A. J. Sisk
AUTHOR: Jason Pearson Andrew Jackson Sisk is my 4th great grandfather, son of Henry Hawkins and Rachel Sisk. I was shocked when I found a distant cousin who had his portrait hanging in her house. The photograph was created c.1905. Not many people can say they can see...
Five Pless Brothers
AUTHOR: Dixie Kamplain I am of the direct line from Elijah Pless of Haywood who moved to Ashe County around the time of the Civil War. Although he can't be found on the war records, all four of his brothers fought for the Confederacy. Including Asbury Glenn Pless who...
Confederate Mallet and Tent Stake found between Plymouth and Washington, NC
AUTHOR: Robert Jones This is a crude wooden mallet and tent stake, still having a piece of the original rope. It was left behind by Confederate forces when moving between Washington, NC and Plymouth, NC. It was picked up and put in an antebellum barn, where it...
Four Brothers Fight for the Confederacy: Mike, Matthew, William, and James Stroup
AUTHOR: Sid Stroupe and Mike Stroupe William Stroup left Lincoln County in the early 1800s and settled in Buncombe County. He married Sarah “Sallie” Earwood and raised a family. They had four sons—Michael, Matthew, William, and James. All of William and Sallie’s sons...
The Story of my Great-Grandfather, Nathan Wyatt
AUTHOR: Christine Wyatt Stockman Nathan Wyatt, a prosperous agriculturist and stock raiser of Latty Township, and one of its leading citizens, was born November 10, 1844 in Wilkes County, NC. He is a son of David and Amelia (Wingler) Wyatt, the former of whom is a...
1862 Field-press broadside on the Battle of Roanoke Island
SUBMITTED BY: Robert Jones This Battle of Roanoke Island, NC Broadside also features an 1862 Battle engraving, Naval and Army commanders’ engravings, and clipped signatures of General Burnside and Admiral Goldsborough. The first part of the broadside is an order...
Anson County, NC during the Civil War
SUBMITTED BY: Steve Bailey THE CIVIL WAR IN ANSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA: ANSON COUNTY CITATIONS FROM THE WAR OF REBELLION VOLUME -- Book Title: THE WAR OF THE REBELLION: A COMPILATION OF THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES. SERIES 1 - VOLUME 47...
“Return to the Tented Field”
SUBMITTED BY: Glenn Land Written by my 4 x 1st cousin Thomas Charles Land of Wilkes County, NC. Thomas began the war a Private in Company B 1st NC Infantry (The Wilkes Valley Guards). He was seriously wounded at Malvern Hill July 1,1862. While furloughed home he was...
The Ringing of the Bells
AUTHOR: Dean Rathbone The warm sunshine and the serene view beckoned me to my mother's front porch this afternoon. As I rocked gently in a rocker, she slowly made her way, shuffling behind her walker, to join me. We sat there silently, enjoying the warmth and the...
Keep the Banner Wavin’
AUTHOR: Daniel E. Johnson, IV Click on this link to read Mr. Johnson's book: Keep-the-Banner-Wavin-RIGHT-FORMAT Click on the images below to enlarge...
Emily Thornton, Child of the Civil War
AUTHOR: Gail Sasser Hopkins Emily Thornton-Rhodes was born in 1862. Her father Samuel I Thornton joined in the Southern cause while Ava Hestor Raynor his wife took care of 6 of the 10 children born before and during the war. They lived in Sampson County before and...
Ike McGaha
AUTHOR: Tim Pruitt Isaac Burleson “Ike” McGaha ca. 1833-1919 A longtime resident of the “lawless” Big Bend region of Cataloochee, Haywood County (Hicks Cove area), Ike was a farmer and sometime moonshine maker like most. He was noted for his long red chin beard and...
The Man Who Was Hanged for Treason
AUTHOR: Donna J. Hart On February 10, 1864, William Hardy Daugherty was one of 13 men hanged in Kinston, North Carolina, having been convicted of treason against the Confederacy. Watching the executions were their wives, neighbors, friends, and even former comrades...
Corporal David Land, Company I 13th NC Infantry
AUTHOR: Glenn Land I trace my paternal roots to my 5 x great-grandparents, Thomas Land and Ann Sumter of Wilkes County, NC. One of their several great-grandsons and Civil War Veterans was my 2 x great-grandfather, David Land. David was last counted in the 1900 census...
“Yep, Our Youngins’ Turned Out Right Well, Didn’t They?”
SUBMITTED BY: Dean Rathbone A message of hope and peace. I never knew my great grandparents, Anderson and Bette Kirkpatrick Ledford, but I feel like I did. They lived with my Granny Hattie and Grandpa Charlie after Granny Bette had her stroke. My Mom still talks...
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Phone: 910-491-0602
Email: info@nccivilwarcenter.org
824 Branson Street
Post Office Box 53865
Fayetteville, NC 28305