Apr 21, 2021 | Confederate affiliation, Orange
SUBMITTED BY: Scott Dickson; written by Holly Dickson Hollingsworth (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) By: Holly Dickson Hollingsworth My grandfather, John W. Dickson, was born in the Dickson House in 1912 and lived there until 1925. His stories were shared...
Apr 12, 2021 | Confederate affiliation, Davie
AUTHOR: Linda H. Barnette (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) I had heard from my grandmother, Blanche Dwiggins Smith, that her great-great-grandfather, Daniel Dwiggins, was a circuit-riding Methodist preacher in the early to mid-1800s, so you can imagine my...
Apr 6, 2021 | Confederate affiliation, Wake
SUBMITTED BY: Tom Henderson; Original transcription by Jane Taylor Henderson (1959) (submission edited by Cheri Todd Molter) This letter was written by Edwin Bevers, I deduce. It is a most poignant account of the death of his younger brother, Woodley Beavers, who was...
Mar 24, 2021 | Anson, Confederate affiliation
AUTHOR: Steve Bailey (vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter) An Excerpt from the Thursday, July 10, 1862 issue of the N.C. ARGUS (Wadesborough [sic], Anson County, N.C.): “List—Of killed and wounded in Co. C, 14th Regiment, as far as known: Killed – Daniel McKAY,...
Mar 24, 2021 | Burke, Confederate affiliation
AUTHOR: Melba Cooper Finley (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) An Oral Tradition, told to my mother, Mary Sue Carswell Cooper, by her grandmother, Julia Adeline Butler Carswell, who was born in 1861 or there about (See note below). Julia’s father, Erwin...
Mar 2, 2021 | Bladen, Confederate affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Steve Sutton (vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Editor’s Note: Sgt. Steve Sutton (Ret) has submitted a document that was researched and typed up in the 1970s and two photographs. One of the photographs is of William Ayers Davis, and the other is of John...
