Nov 7, 2018 | Anson, Confederate affiliation
TRANSCRIBED AND SUBMITTED BY: Steve Campbell Hagwood [This is an eyewitness account by Charlotte Bennett[i], daughter of Lemuel D. Bennett, of the events in Anson County, NC on March 3-5, 1865. Charlotte would have been 15 at the time this occurred and this account...
Nov 7, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Rockingham
SUBMITTED BY: Linda Webb Franklin Alvis Cornelius Webb was born in 1836 in Wentworth, North Carolina, the son of John and Elizabeth. On July 25, 1857, he married Chaney Ann Victoria Carter. He enlisted in the Confederate Army on February 27, 1862 in Rockingham...
Nov 7, 2018 | Johnston, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Warren Grimes From Mr. Grimes: “I’ve attached a page from Centenary United Methodist Church’s 1865 Sabbath School Journal where a Union soldier wrote in it while Sherman’s army was in Smithfield after the Battle of Bentonville....
Nov 6, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Johnston
SUBMITTED BY: Warren Grimes AUTHOR: Thad G. Stem, Jr. Click on the link to the right for the story >> Bentonville Civil War- Dora Hood Kirkman Memories – Durham Herald 1940
Nov 2, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Lincoln
Submitted by Sid Stroupe and Mike Stroupe; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter In July 1860, David Stroup was 18 years old and was a “farm laborer” who was living with the Henry McClure family in the Spring Hill Forge Post Office District of Lincoln County, NC. He...
