Oct 16, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Onslow, Reconstruction
SUBMITTED BY: Gary White; Edited by Cheri Todd Molter The words of David Franklin Aman: “Many years ago, after a great storm on the coast, beachcombers found a little boy among the wreckage washed ashore. One exclaimed ‘It’s a man!’ He was cared for and...
Oct 16, 2018 | Edgecombe, Reconstruction
AUTHOR: Patrika Cos My grandfather, Joe Cosby, was born into enslavement in 1852 in North Carolina. He was born to Joe Cosby. [The name of his mother is unknown.] Joe Cosby was only 13 years old when the Civil War was over. He was eventually appointed as one of...
Oct 12, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Scotland
SUBMITTED BY: Alan M. Stubbs: “This is an article published in a Wilmington, NC newspaper around 1900 by my great grandmother’s cousin.” [History Center cannot locate the newspaper name or date. Her remembrance can be found as a historical essay on the...
Oct 11, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, McDowell, Union affiliation
Submitted by: Sid Stroupe & Mike Stroupe; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter At the age of twenty-five, Alfred J. Stroup was conscripted into the Confederate States Army at McDowell County, N.C.. Serving as a private, Stroup was mustered into Company K of the...
Oct 10, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Gaston
Submitted by Sid Stroupe and Mike Stroupe; Written and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter Alfred A. Stroup (1842-?), the son of Joseph P. Stroup, was born in Buncombe County, North Carolina but moved by 1860 to the Stroup homelands in what was then Gaston County. Alfred...
