Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Robeson
AUTHOR: Tim A. Sellers, Lumberton, NC [Editor’s Note: This is an expanded version of “Death Reached Far Beyond the Battlefield,” by Billy Sellers.] Neill Stephen Kinlaw, my great-great-grandfather on my mother’s side, was 38 when he was captured at...
Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Orange, Wake
AUTHOR: Unknown William Councilman was 1837 in Orange County. He married Lydia Coble on 6 August 1859. He was a private in the 8th North Carolina Regiment, Company I. He enlisted on 5 July 1861 in Alamance County, NC. He was present and accounted for throughout the...
Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Rowan
AUTHOR: Unknown William J. Hill was born 1817 in Rowan County, NC. He was the son of Henry and Jane Hill. He was married three times: Milly Pool (1841), Avelina Black (1847), and Rachel Shepherd (17 July 1851). He was the father of 10 children, 6 boys and 4...
Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Iredell, Rowan
AUTHOR: Unknown The oldest of three boys to serve for the South, Rinehardt Emanuel Beaver or “Manuel” as he was called, was born in Rowan County in 1837. Manuel was 2nd to enlist on January 25, 1862 in Salisbury in Co. B of the 42nd NC State Troops. He...
Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Iredell, Rowan
AUTHOR: Unknown Levi Adolphus Beaver was born in Rowan County in 1840, one of three brothers who would fight to defend the Southern Cause. Amazingly, all three returned home. “Dolph,” as he was called by friends and family, enlisted as a Private in...
Sep 17, 2018 | Burke, Catawba, Confederate affiliation, Lincoln
AUTHOR: Unknown Abel Reid Pitts was born to John Henry and Sarah Lolly Rogers Pitts on 30 August, 1826 in Lincoln Co., NC. Abel later lived in Burke Co and enlisted in Catawba Co into Co K, NC 35th Infantry Regiment as a private, age 36, on 15 October, 1861 for the...
