Dicey Couch’s Petition to the Commissioners of Claims: The Orange County Woman Sought Compensation for a Horse, a Mule, and Bacon

May 6, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Orange

SUBMITTED BY:  Ruth C. Couch (transcription of original document by Ruth C. Couch; vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) To read the petition, click on the link here:...

Jane Dickinson Cowan DeRosset’s “Sherman’s Men Enter North Carolina”

May 6, 2020 | Bertie, Confederate affiliation, New Hanover, Scotland

SUBMITTED BY:  Beacham McDougald; AUTHOR: Jane Dickinson Cowan DeRosset (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Col. Robert H. Cowan, Jr. was a grandson of Governor David Stone (1808-1810) of Bertie County, North Carolina. Col. Cowan was also president of the...

Nathan Bradshaw: A Soldier of the Overland Trail

May 6, 2020 | Caldwell, Confederate affiliation, Union affiliation

SUBMITTED BY:  K. Jeffery Torgler (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) This is an outline of research results—census records, military records, etc.—that tell the story of the life of Nathan Bradshaw. We were compiling this information to track down the grave...

“[T]ell me what we poore soldiers wifes is to do”: Mrs. Susan Shearin, Mrs. L. Reid, Mrs. M. Neal, Mrs. C. Aycock, Mrs. Thomson, and Mrs. Elbeth Write a Letter to Gov. Vance

May 6, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Halifax, This Month's Featured Story

Submitted by Jean Finch Inscoe; Written and transcribed by Cheri Todd Molter   Life was difficult for women, too, during the Civil War. After able-bodied, young men went off to fight, older men, women and children were left behind to survive as best as they could...

Thomas Warren “Capt. Plunk” Shearin

May 6, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Halifax

SUBMITTED BY:  Jean Finch Inscoe (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Thomas Warren Shearin was born on April 24, 1832 to his parents Seth and Mary “Polly” Pike Shearin of Warren County, North Carolina. As an adult, Thomas married Susan D. Myrick and the couple...

“[W]e can talk over the old times that tried mens [sic] souls”: A Letter from George Fitts to John L. Shearin

May 6, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Warren

SUBMITTED BY:  Jean Finch Inscoe (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter; transcription by Cheri Todd Molter and Carolina Echeverri) John Lindsey Shearin was born in 1842 in Warren County, North Carolina. He worked as farmer in Warren County and enlisted in the...