Jan 9, 2019 | Anson, Confederate affiliation
AUTHOR: Steve Bailey (Click photo to enlarge) Amos Powell was an African American gentleman who apparently was born in Richmond County NC about 1841. He was a slave of Charles Powell. Amos & Charles Powell both served in the Civil War Company D of the 23rd...
Jan 9, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Surry
AUTHOR: Joshua N. James; edited by Cheri Todd Molter My great-great-grandfather Abner Lee Snow was born to Richard Snow and Sally Tucker Snow in 1843 in Surry County, North Carolina. Surry County was then and is still very rural. The landscape is dominated by the...
Jan 7, 2019 | Bladen, Confederate affiliation, Randolph
Submitted by Bradley R. Foley; edited by Cheri Todd Molter (The following excerpt is from Mr. Foley’s book Letters Home: The Civil War Correspondence of Lieutenant Colonel Alexander C. McAlister) (Click photo to enlarge) “Following his graduation from the University...
Jan 7, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Forsyth
AUTHOR: Henry L. Yarbrough (Click photo to enlarge) Sylvanus David Davis was born in Surry County, North Carolina on September 08, 1832. Before the Civil War, he came to Pfafftown, N.C. around 1857 and lived in the home of A.C. [Adalaid Cooper] Transou. After that...
Jan 5, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Randolph
AUTHOR: Joseph R. Suggs; edited by Cheri Todd Molter [Written for The State, vol. 36, May 1, 1969 by Joseph R. Suggs] The battle flag of the Randolph Hornets—Company M, 22nd North Carolina Militia, CSA—has come home again to Randolph County from whence it departed...
Jan 1, 2019 | Anson, Confederate affiliation
AUTHOR: Steve Bailey I surveyed this church cemetery in 1997 and discovered this lonely grave and have always wondered about the soldier. Some of my questions being who erected the headstone? Was it one soldier by the name of Maurice Spradling or was it two soldiers...
