Jul 19, 2024 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson
Submitted by Ted Warren; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown On September 1, 1861, twenty-seven-year-old Joseph Butler of Sampson County, NC, enlisted in the Confederate army as a private. About a month later, Butler left his wife, Isabella, and...
Jul 18, 2024 | Anson, Confederate affiliation
Submitted by Steve Bailey; vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter The following is a transcription from an article entitled “War Time Letters,” which was published in The Messenger and Intelligencer on Thursday, May 19, 1898. “We are pleased to offer to our readers,...
Jul 16, 2024 | Confederate affiliation, Nash, Union affiliation
Written by Attorney David Warren Boone and Judge James F. Ammons, Jr. (Grandsons of Gilbert Wayner Boone); Vetted by Kobe M. Brown and Edited by Cheri Todd Molter Based on Oral Tradition and Research William Boon’s role in the Civil War has been something of a family...
Jul 16, 2024 | Antebellum era, Confederate affiliation, Davie, Orange
Submitted by Linda Barnette; Vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter; Transcriptions copied by Alisone Warlick Carr and Kobe M. Brown William H. Call was born in Davie County in 1842. His parents were Henry R. Call and Martha Frost Call. In 1861, William was a student...
Jul 16, 2024 | Gaston, Reconstruction
Submitted by Ken Winston; edited by Kobe M. Brown and Cheri Todd Molter An Oral History My grandmother, Nancy Effie Stroup, was a daughter of Jasper Stoe Stroup, a North Carolina native and Civil War veteran, who grew up in the community of Cuba, Kentucky. I remember...
