Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Halifax
AUTHOR: Unknown Alpheus Branch was born 1843 in Halifax County. He was the son of Samuel and Mary Branch. He enlisted in Company I, North Carolina 1st Infantry Regiment on 11 Jul 1861. He was mustered out on 12 Nov 1861. He then enlisted in Company G, North...
Sep 16, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Macon
AUTHOR: Gary Neil Carden When I was a child, I often went with my grandfather, Samuel Arthur Carden, to visit his mother “Aunt Nancy” Gibson Carden, who lived in Cowee, which is ten or twelve miles beyond Franklin, NC. Aunt Nancy (who was nicknamed...
Sep 13, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Rowan
AUTHOR: Joel R. Stegall The American Civil War has been called a lot of things, but two descriptions are rather inventive: The Late Unpleasantness;[1] and, An Objective History of the War of Northern Aggression.[2] Whatever label one may apply to that American...
Sep 13, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Franklin
SUBMITTED BY: Ginny Kellum Original post about the Young family Kellum – Letter 1 Kellum – Letter 2 Kellum – Letter from Thomas Jefferson Young to his father John Young
Sep 13, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Rowan
SUBMITTED BY: Michael P. Brown He was a volunteer for the Confederate Army, July 3, 1861, at age 20 in Rowan County. He fought in the Battle of Manassas and Williamsburg before he was taken prisoner in Maryland in 1862. He fell ill in prison. He served as a nurse in...
