by CCW | Feb 26, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Hertford
SUBMITTED BY: Elizabeth Jones Thomas Parramore, “The Burning of Winton,” North Carolina Historical Review (Winter 1962): 18-31. Dr. Thomas Custis Parramore grew up in Winton and was a Raleigh historian, author, lecturer and Meredith College history professor...
by CCW | Feb 26, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Nash
SUBMITTED BY: JD Mayo (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Photo of Charity Rose Womble. Click photo to enlarge. I have four ancestors who joined the Confederate Army during the Civil War. My great grandmother’s mom was Cherry Rose Robbins Sears (1867-1939). Her...
by CCW | Feb 26, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Wayne
SUBMITTED BY: Adrienne Stanley (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Minnie McClenny Sutton was my great-grandmother, and I found two separate sheets of paper on which family members had recorded their interviews with Minnie while asking her about the Civil War....
by CCW | Feb 26, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson
SUBMITTED BY: Sandra White Hinton (transcribed by Cheri Todd Molter and Caitlin Crenshaw) Note from Sandra: Here are Lal’s letters. Please do upload them. His handwriting is so neat! All the Whites were educated, and they were all Masons, as well. Uploads here:...
by CCW | Feb 12, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Lincoln
SUBMITTED BY: Michael Stroupe (introduction and modern transcriptions written by Cheri Todd Molter) Author’s Note: I’d like to thank Patrick Ruppe for providing the details of Charles Dellinger’s and George Dellinger’s Confederate military service. The original draft...
by CCW | Feb 10, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Polk, Union affiliation
AUTHOR: Oren Jerry Hill, Jr. (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Geographical, cultural, political, and socioeconomical diversity in the mountain counties of North Carolina led to the occurrence of a wide range of incidents, from those of unusual cruelty to...
