Jan 24, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Moore
SUBMITTED BY: Rick Monroe (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) I’ve known for quite a while that my great-great-uncles, William Johnson Monroe and Levi Deaton Monroe, were both killed during the battles for Petersburg, Virginia, in 1864 and 1865. A number...
Jan 3, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Richmond
SUBMITTED BY: Alan Ashworth (vetted by Cheri Molter) My Great-grandfather John Calvin McFadyen served the Confederate Army in Co E, 38th NCT—the Richmond County Boys. A copy of their unit song is in Rankin Museum in Ellerbe, NC. John’s unit was guarding the...
Jan 3, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Warren
SUBMITTED BY: Judy Ellington Stainback; Letters Transcribed by Cheri Todd Molter, Caitlin Crenshaw, Carolina Echeverri, and Daniel Whiting A note from Judy Ellington Stainback: I grew up on a 300-plus-acre tobacco farm in Drewry, Warren County, North Carolina. Part of...
Jan 3, 2020 | Hertford, Reconstruction, Union affiliation
Written by Marvin Tupper Jones; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter The Winton Triangle is a community of land-owning people of color in the Winton-Cofield-Ahoskie area of Hertford County, North Carolina. Originally inhabited by the Chowanoke people, the first...
Jan 3, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Halifax
Submitted by William R. “Bill” Beavans; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter William “Billy” Beavans, a Confederate soldier from Halifax County, N.C., served in Company I of the 1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment and with the 43rd North Carolina...