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Capture Idled Young Officer

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...

Family Put the War Behind Them

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...

Death Reached Far Beyond the Battlefield

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....

Young General Distinguished Himself

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...

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