December 2020 Year End Update

Dec 7, 2020 | News

Dear Friends: By any measure, 2020 has been a challenging year:  A global pandemic.  Racial division and strife.   Economic turmoil. Many of you have asked what this means for the future of the North Carolina Civil War & Reconstruction History Center. The answer...

Ransom Naylor, A Civil War Soldier

Dec 2, 2020 | Antebellum era, Confederate affiliation, Sampson

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...

“Relating how the McAdams, Roneys, and Rippys are Blood Kin to Dukes”: A Letter to Rev. Joseph “Mack” McAdams from L. D. Rippy of Alamance County

Nov 24, 2020 | Durham, Not categorized

SUBMITTED BY:  Jan King (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) I copied these documents from a McAdams file found in the Ray County Genealogy Library in Richmond, Missouri. These files were just in a manilla folder in the Genealogy Library. There is a note on page...

“Glory, Glory, Glory”: The Story of Grandmother Norton

Nov 24, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson

AUTHOR:  Dallas R Reese Jr. (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot to slip; your Protector will not slumber. (Psalms...

The Military Careers of Two Brothers, James M. Patterson & Armistead Patterson

Nov 24, 2020 | Alamance, Confederate affiliation

SUBMITTED BY:  Lois McPherson, written by D.W.P. (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) James M. Patterson (1837-1868) and Armistead Patterson were the sons of George and Sophia Coble Patterson, and they grew up in Alamance County. Their paternal grandparents were...