by CCW | Sep 3, 2020 | Brunswick, Confederate affiliation
AUTHOR: Lewis Hardee, Jr. (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Editor’s Note: John Wescott was born on Aug. 28, 1845 to Samuel and Eliza Wescott [also spelled “Wescoat” in some records] of Brunswick County, North Carolina. After the war started, he served the...
by CCW | Sep 11, 2018 | Brunswick, Columbus, Confederate affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Tom Fagart The luckiest Fort Fisher man just may be Pvt. Henry Vines, 3rd Co G, 36th Regiment, 2nd NC Artillery. Pvt. Vines was born 5 July 1843, enlisted 30 Apr 1862, Brunswick County, Wilmington, NC at age 20. He is listed as prisoner #597 arriving...
by Paula F. Kermon | Sep 15, 2017 | Brunswick, Confederate affiliation
Robert Andrews Sellers (1847-1905) (Source: Contributed by Paula F. Kermon) Robert Sellers’ childhood is very sketchy, but according to his widow, his father died when Robert was a young child. When his mother remarried, his stepfather bonded him to a farmer....
by Garland Worthington Archer | Jan 27, 2016 | Brunswick, Confederate affiliation
William Worthington, Confederate Cavalry Lieutenant from Mississippi William Worthington’s family were plantation owners in Washington County, MS, northeast of Vicksburg. William Worthington began his Civil War service as an officer in Company H, 1st Mississippi...
by Susan Hadenchuk | Jan 27, 2016 | Brunswick, Confederate affiliation
Franklin Larabee, officer in the US Colored Troops, 27th Regiment Franklin Larabee was born in Jefferson, OH in 1828. His Civil War story begins in 1861 when, with a wife and 4 children, he enlisted as a private in the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. His war records...
by Charles Wayne Merritt | Jan 26, 2016 | Brunswick, Confederate affiliation
Brothers Elias Fairfax and John Fairfax enlisted at ages 36 and 38 Elias Fairfax was born in 1826. He enlisted in the Confederate Army from Brunswick County at age 36 on April 24, 1862 and served as a private with Battalion A of North Carolina’s 2nd Light...
