Mar 23, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
Immigrant Served Twice in Wartime John C. Koch, a corporal in the Confederate army, was born in 1842 in Wehldorf, a province of Hanover Germany. It is not known when John arrived in Wilmington, but he enlisted in Company A, 18th North Carolina Infantry, on April 15,...
Mar 22, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Wake
Illness Sent New Yorker Home Charles St. Andrews enlisted in the U.S. Army as a private in August 1862 and was a member of the 142nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment. His regimental commander was Colonel Newton Martin Curtis, who later won the Medal of Honor for...
Mar 22, 2015 | Beaufort, Confederate affiliation
The Biggest Killer Wasn’t Battle Absalom Tuten Roe enlisted in the Confederate army in Beaufort County on January 25, 1862. Private Roe was involved in the construction of Fort Fisher. He arrived there on March 29 1862, with Co. B of the 40th Regiment, North...
Mar 22, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Watauga
My Civil War Ancestor I had three ancestors in the Civil War. This is about one from Watauga county. Benjamin Moody was conscripted/drafted by the Southern side; but after he had been in a few months, he deserted and made his way over into Tennessee, where he joined...
Mar 22, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
Illness Ended the War for a Young Artilleryman George F. Flowers, Private, CSA, joined the 2nd North Carolina Light Artillery, Co. G, at age 17. George was captured on the Cape Fear River on June 25, 1864, and sent to Fort Monroe, Va. He was then sent to the Point...
Mar 22, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
Reassignment Spared Unit Jacob H. Idol (Eitel) was a private in the Confederate army. At some point, Co. A, 42nd North Carolina Infantry, were guards at the Salisbury prisoner of war camp. Some soldiers voted to go to the “Eastern Theatre” Army of Northern VA and saw...
