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...
Mar 23, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson
Family Put the War Behind Them Malcolm McDonald Hall of Sampson County, my great-great-grandfather, was a private in the Confederate army. I do not have much information on him, but I know he was from Sampson County. He was born Malcolm McDonald, but after his...
Mar 23, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Robeson
Death Reached Far Beyond the Battlefield Neill Stephen Kinlaw of Robeson County, a private in the Confederate army, survived the assault on Fort Fisher, but not the war. Captured at Fort Fisher, he was taken to the prison camp at Elmira, N.Y. He died one month later....
Mar 23, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Lincoln
Young General Distinguished Himself Robert Frederick Hoke was born in Lincolnton, N.C., to Michael Hoke and Frances Burton on May 27, 1837. On Jan. 19, 1863, at the age of 26, he was promoted to brigadier general. (He later became a major general.) Robert was wounded...
Mar 23, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
Cost of Fort Fisher Kept rising Gary Spencer of New Hanover County, a Confederate private, lost his life in the struggle for Fort Fisher and control of the North Carolina...
