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...
Mar 23, 2015 | Beaufort, Confederate affiliation
Soldier Gave Enough, or Had Enough I got this information on James Salter Blount, my great-great-grandfather, through genealogy search. My family did not have any stories. James joined the Confederate army at age 19, mustering in in Beaufort County as a sergeant in...
Mar 23, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
Then It Became Civilized Six days before his birthday Captain Ezra Lewis Moore, U.S. Army, was detailed to the staff of Joseph C. Abbott. As the battle for Fort Fisher was winding down, Capt. Moore and another officer were walking down towards the Mound Battery when...
Mar 23, 2015 | Anson, Confederate affiliation
Brothers Separated by War John McLaurin lived in Anson County. He was the son of Scottish immigrants Daniel and Nancy Ann (Stewart) McLaurin. John was a farmer. He never married. John joined 3rd Company G, 40th Regiment, North Carolina 3rd Artillery, in 1863 after his...
Mar 23, 2015 | Bladen, Confederate affiliation
Some Quiet Diplomacy at Elmira Gideon Tyson, a private in the Confederate army, was captured at Fort Fisher. He was sent to the Elmira prison camp in New York, where a guard caught him stealing food in the kitchen area in the middle of the night. Gideon overpowered...
