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A Confederate Soldier: William M. Stroup
AUTHORS: Mike Stroupe and Sid Stroup Private William M. Stroup was residing in Gaston County, NC at time of his enlistment into Company H of the 37th Infantry (North Carolina). He was conscripted in the CSA for a period of 3 years by J. C. McRae of Statesville in...
Former NC Governor Jim Hunt on WIDU
An interview today with Governor James B. Hunt, Jr. asking for the community’s support for creation of the Civil War & Reconstruction History Center in Fayetteville. Click below to...
NCCWRHC receives $6.5 million painting…
N.C. Civil War & Reconstruction History Center receives $6.5 million painting, completes local funding requirement for $5 million state appropriation For immediate release: June 4, 2019 (For a video of the painting donated to the N.C. Civil War & Reconstruction...
Dark Days of the War
AUTHORS: Joel Warrick Rose On June 19, 1879, General William T. Sherman gave an address to the graduating class of the Michigan Military Academy in which he used the often-quoted phrase “war is hell.” It is probably the most memorable statement that was ever...
Solomon Luther Stroup: A Confederate Deserter Who Relocated to Arkansas
AUTHORS: Mike Stroupe and Sid Stroupe On October 28, 1861, Solomon Luther Stroup volunteered to serve in the Confederate Army in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. He was 24 years old at the time and volunteered for 3 years of service. On May 19, 1862,...
Four Brothers Fighting in the Civil War: Wesley C. Stroup, Robert B. Stroup, Jesse Isaac Stroup Jr, and William M. Stroup
AUTHORS: Mike Stroupe and Sid Stroupe Wesley, Robert, Jesse, and William M. Stroup were brothers who all fought during the Civil War. Their father was Jesse Isaac Stroup Sr of Lincoln County, North Carolina.On March 25, 1862, Wesley C. Stroup enlisted at the age of...
Hiram Hamilton Hartley’s Civil War Experiences
AUTHOR: Linda H. Barnette My great-great-grandfather, Hiram Hamilton Hartley, was a plantation owner in Davidson County, North Carolina, at the beginning of the Civil War. Obviously, he felt strongly about the Confederate cause and enlisted in Wake County on July 15,...
Memories of the Civil War
SUBMITTED BY: Katy F. Sigmon My name is Katy Louise Frye Sigmon. I am almost 93 years old. I was born and raised on this farm. The log house stood until December 1918 but burned to the ground then. As a child I knew where the brick oven stood, where the foundation of...
Samuel Porter, James Haywood Porter, and Margaret Jean Butler Porter: Their Stories of Loss, Hardship, and Death
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...
Esther Bullard’s horse: A Civil War mystery
SUBMITTED BY: Joel W. Rose, written by Stephen Lee (Photograph above by Joel Rose of the Bullard farm house, located on Carry Bridge Road in the Hayne community of Sampson County, NC.) Generations of descendants of Thomas Bullard (1812-1878) have heard the story of a...
The Civil War comes to Sampson County
SUBMITTED BY: Joel W. Rose By E.M. Bullard (1880-1959)Early in March of 1865 one division of Sherman’s Army, composed largely of Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio troops, broke camp at Blockersville (now Stedman) and began their march through Sampson County. A troop of...
From the family of Confederate soldier Joseph Boon Herring
SUBMITTED BY: Joel W. Rose According to The Family of Confederate Soldier Joseph Boon Herring, written by Ronald A Herring, "Joseph Boon Herring went by the name Boon Herring most of his life and it is believed that he was named for his Great Grandmother, Esther...
Surviving Sherman
SUBMITTED BY: Joel W. Rose Penny Alderman was a young farm wife in antebellum North Carolina. Her husband, Reverend Amariah B. Alderman, was a Baptist minister who served many churches from the south end of Sampson county. Written in 1854, her diary records Penny’s...
My Civil War Ancestors
AUTHOR: Wanda Morrison Tillotson Basically, this is my story: I grew up just down the road alongside all my maternal relatives. My Jackson line, including my 3rd Great Grandfather, Lewis/Louis Jackson, his first three sons—John Calvin, Edmund Coleman and William...
Large wooden canteen brought home by a New York Civil War veteran
SUBMITTED BY: Robert Jones This would be considered a “Wagon” or “Surgeon’s” canteen because of its larger size. It has a diameter of 10 ½” x 6” deep and stamped on one side of the canteen is “N C”, for North Carolina. It has a raised “bung” and tightly lapped wooden...
Kenneth Thomas Morgan: My Great-Great-Grandfather’s Civil War Experiences
SUBMITTED BY: John Marshall I was born John Warren Calhoun. When I was a child, I was adopted at the age on ten by Woodrow L. Marshall and Pocahontas Bachelor Marshall of Rocky Mount, North Carolina. This is how my last name became Marshall.I’m the biological son of...
Levi, Samuel, and Samuel Stroup: A Father, a Son, and a Nephew Who All Fought for the Confederacy
SUBMITTED BY: Sid Stroupe and Mike Stroupe Levi Stroup was married to Nancy Stucky Stroup and they had one son and four daughters. On September 19, 1861, Levi, then forty-six-years-old, enlisted in the Confederate States Army. The family was residing in Gilmer County,...
Silas M. Stroup of Buncombe County
SUBMITTED BY: Sid Stroupe and Mike Stroupe In September of 1864, Silas M. Stroup, the son of David Rufus Stroup and the grandson of Joseph Stroup, enlisted at the age of 18 in Buncombe County, North Carolina. He was reported on a Bounty Roll in the same county in...
Lt. Franklin Murphy’s North Carolina Civil War Experiences
SUBMITTED BY: Alfred Ferguson The following is an excerpt from a book that includes the letters written by my great-grandfather Lt. Franklin Murphy. He helped demolish the Fayetteville Arsenal. An excerpt from Bernard A. Olsen’s (2000) A Billy Yank Governor, the Life...
Randy Taylor
AUTHOR: Brenda Farthing Cooter My great-great-grandfather Randy Taylor fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War. He was born about 1832 and was the son of John Taylor and Rebecca Clark. He married Rebecca Moody, and their daughter was Lelia Taylor, my...
Joshua Winkler: A Farmer, a Blacksmith, and a Mill Operator of Watauga County
AUTHOR: Brenda Farthing Cooter My Great-Great-grandfather, Joshua Winkler, was the son of John Winkler and Mary Pinion Pennell, born on Oct. 14, 1816 in Wilkes County, NC. Joshua’s maternal grandparents were Benj. Pennell and Elizabeth Judd. Elizabeth was the daughter...
John Watkins and Family: Swain County Residents after the War
AUTHOR: Andrew Watkins John Watkins Born: About 1831 in Wilkes County, NC Died: Between 1910-1913 in Swain County, NC Father: Andrew Watkins (1796) Mother: Talitha Matilda Lunsford (1806) Spouse: Catherine Pressley – born about 1834 in Tennessee Children: William...
Evander N. Robeson and the Bladen Guards
SUBMITTED BY: Mrs. Hoyt Randall The following is an excerpt from The Bladen Journal, written by Mrs. Carl Campbell and dated Thursday, December 7, 1961: “Evander N. Robeson volunteered under Captain Tate on April 26th, 1861 in Elizabethtown, when the “Bladen Guards”...
John Ward, a carpenter from Watauga County
AUTHOR: Terry Harmon This ambrotype of John Ward dates between 1861 and 1862. Born circa 1831, he was a carpenter from the Sugar Grove/Cove Creek section of Watauga County. He enlisted as a Corporal in Co. E, 37th Regiment, NC Infantry, Confederate Army on September...
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...
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Email: info@nccivilwarcenter.org
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Fayetteville, NC 28305