Apr 10, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Stanly
WRITTEN BY: Tom Fagart (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) On July 12, 1864, 833 Confederate soldiers, many who had been captured during the Battle of Cold Harbor, were loaded onto the steamer Crescent, which was tied up along the dock of the Point Lookout...
Apr 10, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson
SUBMITTED BY: Sandra White Hinton (researched and written by Cheri Todd Molter; transcribed by Caitlin Crenshaw & Cheri Todd Molter) Lt. Lal White’s Letter to his Father: October 7, 1863 Lallister M. White, or “Lal”, was born in Sampson County, North Carolina. He...
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...
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...
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....
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:...
