Jul 19, 2024 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson
Submitted by Ted Warren; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown On September 1, 1861, twenty-seven-year-old Joseph Butler of Sampson County, NC, enlisted in the Confederate army as a private. About a month later, Butler left his wife, Isabella, and...
Jul 18, 2024 | Anson, Confederate affiliation
Submitted by Steve Bailey; vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter The following is a transcription from an article entitled “War Time Letters,” which was published in The Messenger and Intelligencer on Thursday, May 19, 1898. “We are pleased to offer to our readers,...
Jul 16, 2024 | Confederate affiliation, Nash, Union affiliation
Written by Attorney David Warren Boone and Judge James F. Ammons, Jr. (Grandsons of Gilbert Wayner Boone); Vetted by Kobe M. Brown and Edited by Cheri Todd Molter Based on Oral Tradition and Research William Boon’s role in the Civil War has been something of a family...
Jul 16, 2024 | Antebellum era, Confederate affiliation, Davie, Orange
Submitted by Linda Barnette; Vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter; Transcriptions copied by Alisone Warlick Carr and Kobe M. Brown William H. Call was born in Davie County in 1842. His parents were Henry R. Call and Martha Frost Call. In 1861, William was a student...
Jul 12, 2024 | Confederate affiliation, Rockingham
Written by James Whitesell; Edited by Cheri Todd Molter An Oral History Told to me by my Great Uncle Louie Martin: My Great-great-grandfather, John Tyler Martin, signed up with the 21st NC, Company L. J. T. Martin was a 2nd Lieutenant at the time of Gettysburg, and on...
Jul 8, 2024 | Confederate affiliation, Surry
Written by Larry Alderman; edited by Cheri Todd Molter An Oral History In 1965, when I was thirteen years old, my great-grandfather, Friel Combs, told front porch stories from his home on Rockford Street in Mt. Airy, North Carolina, and I listened to them intently....
