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...
Jan 7, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Forsyth
AUTHOR: Henry L. Yarbrough (Click photo to enlarge) Sylvanus David Davis was born in Surry County, North Carolina on September 08, 1832. Before the Civil War, he came to Pfafftown, N.C. around 1857 and lived in the home of A.C. [Adalaid Cooper] Transou. After that...
