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...
Sep 11, 2018 | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
Submitted by Tom Fagart; vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown Henry Vines enlisted in the Confederate army on April 30, 1862. He served in Company G of the 36th Regiment, NC Troops. Vines was taken prisoner at Ft. Fisher on January 15, 1865, and...
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....
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...
Jan 27, 2016 | Brunswick, New Hanover, Reconstruction, Union affiliation
Submitted by Susan Hadenchuk; vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe Brown Franklin K. Larabee, 1st Lieutenant, U.S. Army, was born in 1828 in Ashtabula, Ohio. In June of 1861 he enlisted for two years in the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was discharged...
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...
