Nov 13, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Guilford
SUBMITTED BY: Linda D. Gibbs Obituary from the July 11, 1925 Greensboro Record (Greensboro, N.C.): WAR VETERAN IS DEAD NEAR HERE–J.B. Callahan Died Saturday Morning in Stokesdale at Ripe Old Age of 93—J.B. Callahan died at the home of his son, E.O....
Nov 13, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Montgomery
Written by Jim Tucker, the Great-grandson of James [Jim] Milas Tucker, Jr.; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter James [Jim] Milas Tucker, Jr. (1830 -1900) was a wagon maker & farmer in Montgomery County, North Carolina. It is thought that he was very prosperous...
Nov 7, 2018 | Anson, Confederate affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Steve Campbell Hagwood AUTHOR: Peter Jones, 1848-1943 “The day the Yankees came into this county was the first day of March in ’65. Me and some of the neighbor’s boys had run away from home. We were too young to join the army, and...
Nov 7, 2018 | Anson, Confederate affiliation
TRANSCRIBED AND SUBMITTED BY: Steve Campbell Hagwood [This is an eyewitness account by Charlotte Bennett[i], daughter of Lemuel D. Bennett, of the events in Anson County, NC on March 3-5, 1865. Charlotte would have been 15 at the time this occurred and this account...
Nov 7, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Rockingham
SUBMITTED BY: Linda Webb Franklin Alvis Cornelius Webb was born in 1836 in Wentworth, North Carolina, the son of John and Elizabeth. On July 25, 1857, he married Chaney Ann Victoria Carter. He enlisted in the Confederate Army on February 27, 1862 in Rockingham...
Nov 6, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Johnston
SUBMITTED BY: Warren Grimes AUTHOR: Thad G. Stem, Jr. Click on the link to the right for the story >> Bentonville Civil War- Dora Hood Kirkman Memories – Durham Herald 1940
