Sep 11, 2018 | Confederate affiliation
AUTHOR: Julia Breckinridge My grandmother Virginia Lee Binns was the 13th child born at Silver Hall, New Kent County, VA, just up the road from Jamestown. I saw the original charter for her family’s land grant signed by King George in 1624. Yankee soldiers came...
Sep 11, 2018 | Guilford, Not categorized
SUBMITTED BY: James Jarrell I was born in Guilford County. My grandfather was a slave in the Guilford area of Pleasant Garden which is not very far from James Haley’s roots in Alamance County. I did not grow up hearing a lot of stories and related memories of...
Sep 11, 2018 | Iredell, Union affiliation, Wayne
AUTHOR: Betty Bowles Haywood You might call me one-quarter Yankee. My great-grandfather, Major Hiram Grant, came to Goldsboro as part of the Army of Occupation after the Civil War. He was first cousin to General U.S. Grant. Hiram had four children whom he sent to New...
Sep 10, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Rockingham
SUBMITTED BY: Catherine Bowers Southworth This document is an excerpt from “Letters Home to Baughn’s Mountain” transcribed in 1979 by Ellen Flythe Frontis Cross, great-granddaughter of John Henry and Martha Ann Baughn Stone. Some of these letters are heart-wrenching;...
Sep 9, 2018 | Catawba, Confederate affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Katrina Anne Herman Avery Two brothers of my great-grandmother, Susan Young, died while fighting in the Civil War. One was John Young, born in 1843 to Henry and Lavenia Martin Young in Catawba County, NC. At 19 years old, John enlisted in the...
