by ccwinslow394 | May 12, 2021 | Confederate affiliation, Washington
SUBMITTED BY: Robin Oldham (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) This is a picture of Dr. Edward Buncombe Haughton of Washington County. (Click image to enlarge.) He never married and was a surgeon during the Civil War. My cousin is an auctioneer, and once when I...
by ccwinslow394 | May 12, 2021 | Confederate affiliation, Wilkes
AUTHOR: Glenn Land (edited by Linda Barnette and Cheri Todd Molter; vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) My 3x-removed-1st-cousin, John Land, was born about 1846 in Wilkes County, North Carolina. He was the third child and oldest son of James Land, Jr. and Jane Murphy. He...
by ccwinslow394 | Apr 21, 2021 | Confederate affiliation, Orange
SUBMITTED BY: Scott Dickson; written by Holly Dickson Hollingsworth (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) By: Holly Dickson Hollingsworth My grandfather, John W. Dickson, was born in the Dickson House in 1912 and lived there until 1925. His stories were shared...
by ccwinslow394 | Apr 12, 2021 | Confederate affiliation, Davie
AUTHOR: Linda H. Barnette (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) I had heard from my grandmother, Blanche Dwiggins Smith, that her great-great-grandfather, Daniel Dwiggins, was a circuit-riding Methodist preacher in the early to mid-1800s, so you can imagine my...
by ccwinslow394 | Apr 6, 2021 | Confederate affiliation, Wake
SUBMITTED BY: Tom Henderson; Original transcription by Jane Taylor Henderson (1959) (submission edited by Cheri Todd Molter) This letter was written by Edwin Bevers, I deduce. It is a most poignant account of the death of his younger brother, Woodley Beavers, who was...
by ccwinslow394 | Mar 24, 2021 | Anson, Confederate affiliation
AUTHOR: Steve Bailey (vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter) An Excerpt from the Thursday, July 10, 1862 issue of the N.C. ARGUS (Wadesborough [sic], Anson County, N.C.): “List—Of killed and wounded in Co. C, 14th Regiment, as far as known: Killed – Daniel McKAY,...
