Jan 26, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Richmond
SUBMITTED BY: Steve Bailey Civil War skirmish: Union troops overrun Confederates in Rockingham July 29, 2015 Richmond County Daily Journal First Posted: 2/28/2015 It was 150 years ago on March 7, 1865, that Union Army troops came charging down Sandhill Road (which is...
Jan 26, 2019 | Caldwell, Confederate affiliation, Reconstruction
Submitted by Glenn Land; edited by Cheri Todd Molter On October 11, 1897, in an interview with The Morning Post (of Raleigh, NC.), James Daniel Moore spoke of his experience during the first day’s fighting at Gettysburg. Listed as only 15 years old in the 1860 census,...
Jan 26, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Greene
SUBMITTED BY: Linda Lancaster Harmon MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF WAR By Mrs. Winnie Suggs SOURCE: Wilson Daily Times 3 February 1914 I was a mere schoolgirl when Schofield’s army came through this part of the country at the close of the war, but I was well grown...
Jan 26, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
Submitted by Sid Stroupe and Mike Stroupe; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter John E. Stroup was born in 1845 and the son of David Rufus Stroup. According to the 1860 Census, John lived in Jackson County, N.C. On August 31, 1861, sixteen-year-old John Stroup...
Jan 26, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Greene
AUTHOR: Linda Lancaster Harmon Thomas Hill entered in to the Civil War conflict on 13 MAY 1861 Fighting was hard and he died at Chancellorsville, Virginia on Mar 5, 1863. Born Oct 5, 1830
