Jul 27, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
Finding His Way Home: A Soldier’s Move from Virginia to North Carolina Originally from Black Lick, Wythe County, Virginia, William Everett Miller found himself displaced and relocated to a new home in western North Carolina after the Civil War ended. His father—Jacob...
Jul 23, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Johnston
Memoir of Thomas B. Sanders of Kinston Written by Thomas B. Sanders (Submitted by James L. Gaddis) My parents’ farm was in Bentonville Township, Johnston County, N.C. A short distance from our home was the little village of Bentonville. It was in this area that...
Jul 14, 2016 | Catawba, Confederate affiliation
Soldier’s Life Saved by a Hymn Levi Hefner, my maternal great-grandfather, was a Confederate soldier from Hickory in Catawba County. Levi enlisted in Company C, 28th NC Regiment of the Confederate States Army at the outbreak of the Civil War and fought in the...
Jun 6, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Moore
An Oral Tradition: The Cave Man and the Confederates Jeff Brady, my great-great-grandfather, was a farmer near High Falls in Moore County at the outbreak of the Civil War. He lived there with his wife, Mary Ann Moore Brady, and several children. Jeff Brady was a...
Jun 6, 2016 | Camden, Confederate affiliation
The William Sawyer House at the South Mills Battlefield The following information is from several discussions during 1976-1983 with John Halstead Wilkins Sawyer, son of Edmond M. Sawyer and his second wife, Josephine Wilkins (Forbes) Sawyer. The details were from many...
Apr 10, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Madison
The Murder of Joel Holcombe, Home Guard Officer The Murder of Joel Holcombe by Joe Shelton In August of 1865, Joe Shelton and two other men rode to the home of Joel Holcombe in Madison County, North Carolina and shot him while he was working outside. Then, it is...
