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...
Aug 3, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
A Mother Takes a Stand against Col. George Washington Kirk In the 1920s, Annie Zachary Gazaway spoke at a United Daughters of the Confederacy meeting in South Carolina. Gazaway described an event that took place involving her mother, Anne Eliza Jones Zachary, who was...
Aug 3, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
“Don’t Kill Him! He was My Commander in the Mexican War.” In 1814, John Haywood Alley, Jr. was born in Rutherford County. In 1837, as a First Lieutenant in the U. S. Cavalry, Alley was sent to Whiteside Cove, North Carolina, to enforce the government-ordered...
Aug 3, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
Don’t Allow Any Republicans to Be Buried in My Burying Ground The two oldest cemeteries in Cashiers are called the Lower Zachary Cemetery and the Upper Zachary Cemetery. They are located on the same road, not very far apart. The oldest cemetery is the Lower Zachary...
