Jan 9, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Pitt
AUTHOR: Marc Francis Roddin James was a teenage farmer when the Civil War broke out, and he enlisted into the North Carolina 27th Infantry (H Company) in Pitt County, where he lived. He served as a private in E Company for about ten months in 1861 and 1862, which...
Jan 9, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Craven
AUTHOR: Marc Francis Roddin John Herring Wetherington enlisted in the Civil War on June 30, 1862 as a private and became company cook. The nearest he came to a Yankee bullet was when the handle of a pail of food he was carrying was shot in two. When the War was over,...
Jan 9, 2019 | Anson, Confederate affiliation
AUTHOR: Steve Bailey (Click photo to enlarge) Amos Powell was an African American gentleman who apparently was born in Richmond County NC about 1841. He was a slave of Charles Powell. Amos & Charles Powell both served in the Civil War Company D of the 23rd...
Jan 9, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Surry
AUTHOR: Joshua N. James; edited by Cheri Todd Molter My great-great-grandfather Abner Lee Snow was born to Richard Snow and Sally Tucker Snow in 1843 in Surry County, North Carolina. Surry County was then and is still very rural. The landscape is dominated by the...
Jan 7, 2019 | Bladen, Confederate affiliation, Randolph
Submitted by Bradley R. Foley; edited by Cheri Todd Molter (The following excerpt is from Mr. Foley’s book Letters Home: The Civil War Correspondence of Lieutenant Colonel Alexander C. McAlister) (Click photo to enlarge) “Following his graduation from the University...
