May 10, 2024 | Antebellum era, Person
Copy of narrative submitted by Musette Steck; Story researched and written by Cheri Todd Molter According to the “Narrative of James Curry, A Fugitive Slave,” which was published in The Liberator on January 10, 1840, James Curry was born in 1815 in Person County,...
![“[T]hat was the time when it was enough to make one think of home and all that we had left behind us. it was perfectfuly [sic] frightful to hear the shells come crashing through the woods and pass over our heads”: Transcriptions of a Letter written by Thomas Barnaby](https://nccivilwarcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Barnaby-p1-1080x675.jpg)
May 2, 2024 | Craven, Martin, Union affiliation
Submission written and letter transcribed by Cheri Todd Molter On August 29, 1862, Thomas J. Barnaby, a 23-year-old Clerk, enlisted in the Union Army at Dorchester, MA. He served in Company G of the MA 44th Infantry. The following are transcriptions of a letter he...
Apr 29, 2024 | Confederate affiliation, Lincoln, This Month's Featured Story
Submitted by Michael Stroupe; Written, vetted, and transcribed by Cheri Todd Molter On Sept. 11, 1861, Emanuel Houser was a 20-year-old farmer of Lincoln County, NC, when he volunteered to serve in the Confederate army for a term of one year. He was mustered into...
Apr 23, 2024 | Antebellum era, Reconstruction, Surry
Researched and written by Kobe M. Brown and Cheri Todd Molter Orlean Hawks Puckett was an Appalachian midwife known for assisting with the safe deliveries of over 1,000 babies and for never losing a mother or child while in her care. However, determining the “real”...
Apr 9, 2024 | Confederate affiliation, Cumberland, Reconstruction
Written by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown On October 22, 1898, Edward Joseph Hale described an event that took place in Fayetteville, NC, in an article he entitled “White Man’s Day,” which he published in his newspaper, The Observer. He estimated that “eight to...
