Jun 6, 2016 | Camden, Confederate affiliation
The William Sawyer House at the South Mills Battlefield The following information is from several discussions during 1976-1983 with John Halstead Wilkins Sawyer, son of Edmond M. Sawyer and his second wife, Josephine Wilkins (Forbes) Sawyer. The details were from many...
Jun 7, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Gates, Reconstruction
William Paul Roberts, Confederate soldier, legislator, and state auditor, was born in Gates County, the son of John Smith and Jane Gatling Boyt Roberts. He received little formal education other than in local schools a few months out of each year and one year at a...