Apr 12, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Johnston
Pull to Service Runs Deep William Bright Cole was born in Bentonville on the Cole plantation, the son of Willis Cole, who is buried on the farm. This farm is the site of the first day’s fighting in the Battle of Bentonville, March 19, 1865. It includes the main...
Mar 31, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Warren
Thomas Jefferson Pitchford Jr. — 12th NC Troops T.J. (as he was known) was one of six sons of Dr. Thomas Jefferson Pitchford (North Carolina state legislator during the Civil War). All six sons served in the Confederacy: three in the 12th N.C. Troops, two in the...
Mar 28, 2015 | Bladen, Confederate affiliation
Great-Grandfather was soldier, POW Richard Smith, my great-grandfather, was born in Bladen County in December of 1833. His family were among the earliest settlers in North Carolina in the early 1700s. He enlisted in the Confederate army in Bladen County on Oct. 19,...
Mar 25, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Forsyth
Back to the Farm – the Hard Way John Foster Landreth, my great-great-great-grandfather, was born Jan. 18, 1826 in Stokes County. He was the eldest documented son of Obadiah Landreth and Mahalia Branson Landreth. Like his father, he was a farmer. His family did not own...
Mar 25, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Cumberland
Man Knew How To Make a Point Thomas Jefferson Bulla, my great-great-grandfather, had 200 men under his command when Union troops surrendered the U.S. Arsenal in Fayetteville to the state. The story that my grandfather told me when I was a child was that when Capt....
Mar 23, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
Corporal James E. Reid, U.S. Army, was on picket duty along Wilmington Road and present at the magazine explosion, but did not participate in either assault at Fort Fisher or in the Wilmington Campaign. He wrote a series of more than 100 installments about his...
