Nov 25, 2022 | Breaking News, News
Dear Friends: We are pleased to announce officially our new name—The NC History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction—and that we have secured the necessary funding from Cumberland County and the City of Fayetteville to almost complete our...
Jan 15, 2022 | Anson, Confederate affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Harold Clark Davis; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter Towards the end of the war, according to a story I read on the internet, my great-great-grandfather, Henderson Davis, had a childhood friend, Alexander Griffin, who fought for the Union and rode...
Jan 15, 2022 | Cumberland, Reconstruction
SUBMITTED BY: Sarah Foster (edited by Cheri Todd Molter) Editor’s Notes: According to the information shared during T. Pat Matthew’s interview with John C. Becton [his name was misspelled “Bectom” on that record], Mr. Becton was born on October 7, 1862, near...