Sep 11, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Wayne
SUBMITTED BY: John McKinnon (The original copy was written in 1934 when Papa, Mr. F. L. Castex, Sr., was 82 years old. His birthday was February 14, 1852: therefore his recollections of the Civil War were of a child nine to thirteen years old.) I have been asked a...
Sep 11, 2018 | Confederate affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: John McKinnon I asked my brother Sandy, who knew my great-grandmother, if she ever told stories of life during the War. She would have been in her 20’s during the War, and her husband was off fighting. He said only one [story] about throwing...
Sep 11, 2018 | Alleghany, Confederate affiliation, Surry, Wilkes
Submitted by Ruth Dutton Hill; edited by Cheri Todd Molter David Black was a farmer who served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. The following is the transcription of a letter he wrote to his brother, Alex Black, on Christmas evening, 1864. Transcription:...
Sep 11, 2018 | Confederate affiliation
AUTHOR: Kirby Brown I’ve always been glad that my name was Kirby. My great-grandfather, General Edmund Kirby-Smith, a West Point graduate, was the last Confederate general to surrender at the end of the Civil War. There were only seven full generals, and he was...
Sep 11, 2018 | Confederate affiliation
AUTHOR: Julia Breckinridge My grandmother Virginia Lee Binns was the 13th child born at Silver Hall, New Kent County, VA, just up the road from Jamestown. I saw the original charter for her family’s land grant signed by King George in 1624. Yankee soldiers came...
Sep 10, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Rockingham
SUBMITTED BY: Catherine Bowers Southworth This document is an excerpt from “Letters Home to Baughn’s Mountain” transcribed in 1979 by Ellen Flythe Frontis Cross, great-granddaughter of John Henry and Martha Ann Baughn Stone. Some of these letters are heart-wrenching;...
