Feb 18, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, McDowell
Submitted by: Sid Stroupe & Mike Stroupe; Written and vetted by: Cheri Todd Molter On June 5, 1861, Moses S. Stroup was a twenty-one-year-old farmer living in Marion, McDowell County, North Carolina, who decided to enlist in the same county he was living in. He...
Feb 18, 2019 | Union affiliation, Washington
SUBMITTED BY: Fredric William Booth Introduction: These letters written by Joseph Goldinger, a private in Company E of the 103rd Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, while he was stationed in North Carolina. Joseph was about twenty years old when he enlisted, for...
Feb 7, 2019 | Guilford, New Hanover, Union affiliation, Wake
Submitted by Willa Atkinson; Edited by Cheri Todd Molter My Great-Grandmother Elizabeth Knox Lanigan (1905-2005) preserved the letters that Lyman Beecher Hannaford wrote during his Civil War experience; she had them safely tucked away in a drawer for decades. The...
Feb 7, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Halifax
Submitted by Teresa Saville Matern; Transcriptions by Cheri Todd Molter (Note from submitter: I have several others and when I get the time I will send the information. It’s good history.) Andrew J. Dooling was from Macon County, GA, and he enlisted in the...
Feb 7, 2019 | Union affiliation, Wayne
AUTHOR: Marvin Peguese My 3rd great-grandfather, Daniel Huff, served in the Civil War under an alias—Daniel Nazareth—after joining Union General William T. Sherman on his destructive, victorious march through the south. (Click image below to enlarge) I noticed...
