Mar 12, 2019 | Buncombe, Confederate affiliation
Submitted by Mike Stroupe; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter On September 11, 1861, nineteen-year-old Rufus Lott Stroup volunteered for the Confederate Army at Buncombe County, North Carolina. For unknown reasons, he enlisted again on May 13, 1862, in the same...
Mar 12, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Gaston
Submitted by Sid Stroupe and Mike Stroupe; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter At the age of 31, on July 4, 1862, Philip R. Stroup enlisted in the Confederate Army at Lincolnton, Lincoln County. He was a Private in Company G of the 57th Infantry Regiment (North...
Mar 12, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Gaston, Reconstruction
Submitted by Sid Stroupe and Mike Stroupe; Written and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter (Click photo to enlarge) On July 30, 1861, Moses Stroup Jr. was twenty-two and lived in Gaston County, southeast of White Pine, which is currently Cherryville, NC, when he enlisted with...
Mar 12, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Edgecombe
SUBMITTED BY: Jack Travis William Dorsey Pender was born on February 6, 1834, to James and Sarah Routh Pender, on the family’s plantation near Tarboro, NC. On July 1, 1850, at the age of sixteen, he went to the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY. Pender...
Mar 12, 2019 | Alleghany, Ashe, Confederate affiliation
Submitted by Barbara Taylor; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter **About the Picture (click to enlarge): William Cicero Taylor and Rebecca Miller Taylor’s family, taken about 1910/1911 in Peak Creek, North Carolina before they moved to Virginia. The family members...
Mar 12, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Wayne
AUTHOR: William Smith My Great-Grandfather, Ben Casey, served in the 3rd NC Heavy Artillery during the Civil War. He was from Indian Springs, NC in Wayne County. He enlisted in 1862 and was stationed at Southport, NC where he served as a boatman – one of a crew...
