Aug 5, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Randolph, Reconstruction
William Penn Wood: Wounded and Left to Die William Penn Wood was born in Asheboro, North Carolina on May 2, 1843. Wood was a son of Penuel and Calista Birkhead Wood. His youth was spent in Randolph County where he attended public schools from 1850 until 1861. As a...
Aug 5, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Yadkin
One of the Yadkin Boys George Washington Blakely was born in 1838 and, on June 18, 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate Army, serving in the group known as “Yadkin Boys,” Company F, 28th Regiment, NC Troops. He survived the War, but was wounded...
Aug 5, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Hoke
Two Gillis Men were “Detailed to work at C.S. Arsenal at Fayetteville, N.C.” Two men, David W. Gillis and John A. Gillis, both from an area of Cumberland County that became Hoke County, enlisted in the Confederate Army to serve for the duration of the war on March 1,...
Aug 5, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Hoke
Neill Angus Ray: A Survivor of Point Lookout Prison Camp On June 1, 1864, seventeen-and-a-half-year-old Neill Angus Ray enlisted in the Confederate Army at Wilmington, North Carolina. According to war records, Ray was five-feet-eight-inches tall and had a fair...
Aug 4, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
Whiteside Mountain’s Civil War Soldier’s Cave Soldiers who left the Confederate Army to return home were called deserters or “Outliers” because they had to “lie out” from their homes to avoid detection. If caught by the Confederate Home Guard,...
Aug 4, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
Wash Zachary’s Late Night Visit to the Home of Alfred and Jane Zachary According to the family of Cashiers’ resident Mary Baumgarner Bryson, great-granddaughter of Alfred and Jane Zachary, the following story was passed down through the generations: On a...
