Sep 6, 2019 | Hertford, Union County
AUTHOR: Marvin T. Jones (Reprinted from the Fall 2011 newsletter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc.) “Seventeen members of the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) in my family, our own stores, a fairground and our own airstrips–that is...
Sep 6, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Wake
Submitted by Sid Stroupe and Mike Stroupe; Introduction written by Cheri Todd Molter These are letters written by Levi McCasin to his brother and his wife. He was a husband, father, brother, and soldier who was obviously concerned with how things were being handled...
Sep 6, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Wake
SUBMITTED BY: JC Knowles Lawrence O’Bryan Branch was born at Enfield, North Carolina on November 28, 1820. When he was five years old, his mother died. After her death, he and his father moved to Tennessee where his father then died in 1827. Following his father’s...
Sep 6, 2019 | Antebellum era, Franklin, Reconstruction
Submitted by Sherry Jackson; edited by Cheri Todd Molter Based on Oral History My father, James Powell, was a little boy when his grandmother told him the stories, but he remembers bits and pieces. This is what he recalls: His grandmother, Amanda B. Powell, was born...
Aug 28, 2019 | Northampton, Reconstruction
AUTHOR: Penny Beasley; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter I have a love of history and have retraced some of my great-great-grandfather’s, James Tom Baggett’s, steps across the battlefield (See story titled “Tom Baggett and the Grey Patch!”). His post war life is...