Mar 23, 2015 | Bladen, Confederate affiliation
Drummer Boy Turned His Hand to Farming Neal Alexander Callihan of Bladen County was a Confederate drummer boy at 16. He served in 3rd Company B, 36 Regiment North Carolina Troops, and 2nd Regiment N.C. Artillery. After the war, Neal was a farmer. He lived to an old...
Mar 23, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Wake
New Beginning at War’s End Private Richard Dishman of Brooklyn, my great-grandfather, served in the U.S. Army with the 48th New York Infantry Regiment, Company B. He survived both the struggle for Fort Fisher and the Civil War. He was mustered out in Raleigh. He...
Mar 23, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
Small Party Made a Big Haul Private Kendrick Sunday Outlaw, Confederate army, was stationed at Fort Fisher with the North Carolina 2nd Light Artillery. He was captured on the Cape Fear River on June 25, 1864, by Lt. William B. Cushing, USN, and sent to Point Lookout,...
Mar 23, 2015 | Bladen, Confederate affiliation
Fort Fisher to Bladen — the Long Way Around Wright Singletary, my great-grandfather, entered Confederate service as a private at the age of 30, and served as a cook at Fort Fisher. During the battle on January 15, 1865, he took some dramatic action with hot...
Mar 23, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
New Yorker Came South To Fight Florence Martin was born on May 15, 1836 in New York. His parents, Nicholas and Ava, had immigrated to the United States from France in the 1830s. Florence volunteered and enlisted in the U.S. Army as a private in August, 1862, in Rome...
Mar 23, 2015 | Columbus, Confederate affiliation
Capture Idled Young Officer Confederate Lt. Joshua Soles was with the 2nd Co. A, 36th Regiment in North Carolina. Gen. Braxton Bragg sent Joshua to help defend Savannah during Sherman’s siege. Joshua returned to Fort Fisher after the evacuation of Savannah. He fought...
