Jul 23, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Davie
AUTHOR: Linda H. Barnette It all began many years ago when my grandmother, Blanche Dwiggins Smith, gave me a daguerreotype of one of her ancestors who was killed in the Civil War. I wish I had asked her more about it, but being young and busy earning a living, I did...
Jul 11, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Cumberland
SUBMITTED BY: Jadaea Mills During the 1820s, Elizabeth G. Nott and her family lived in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Elizabeth was the daughter of Elizabeth Nott and William Nott, Sr. and born in 1810. She also had a younger sister named Margaret A. Nott. Elizabeth...
Jul 11, 2019 | Anson, Confederate affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Cheri Todd Molter In March 1865, D. A. Covington owned two plantations, one in Anson County, North Carolina and another in South Carolina. Covington wrote to the editor of the Western Democrat on March 13, 1865 to complain about Sherman and his men...
Jul 11, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Pitt
SUBMITTED BY: Robert Barwick Pitt County Genealogical Quarterly PCGQ February 9, 2001 “Recites Heroic Incidents of the Civil War Days Daily Reflector, Jan. 4, 1941 An incident of the Civil war in which a Pitt county woman played the part of a heroine in an...
Jul 11, 2019 | Ashe, Confederate affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Sherry Winebarger-Reeter (Another post on this site from Ms. Winebarger-Reeter contains a letter from Thomas McDaniel to his wife.)
