Sep 11, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Moore
AUTHOR: Bill Arthur Dunlap Aunt Loudy Wright was the oldest sister of John Washington Dunlap, my grandpa’s daddy. She was born in 1822 and lived to 1920. Mr. Wright’s sister married my great-great-grandpa, thus becoming J. W. Dunlap’s mother. I.e.,...
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...
