Aug 3, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
Martha Caroline Potts Pierson’s Experience with ‘Kirk’s Raiders’ Born in 1858, Martha Caroline, the daughter of Allen Potts and Susan Wade Potts, lived in the Yellow Mountain area of North Carolina. Martha was just about 5 years old when Yankee...
Aug 3, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
Written by Jane Gibson Nardy; edited by Cheri Todd Molter From April 186l through the spring of 1865, the Civil War exacted a heavy toll on the citizens of Cashiers Valley. The first part of the war saw sons, husbands and fathers joining the Confederacy and marching...
Jul 29, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Randolph, Reconstruction
My great-grandfather, Jeremiah Cox, lived close to Shiloh Church near Richland Creek in Randolph County. He served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. While a soldier, Jeremiah was wounded by a minié ball that could not be removed from his shoulder, so he...
Jul 27, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Randolph
On June 2, 1976, in an article titled “Civil War Hanging Recalled” from The Courier-Tribune, Ralph L. Bulla wrote about the death of Randolph County man, Alson G. Allred. Men who were already serving in the Civil War “were angered because Allred supposedly ‘hid out,’”...
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...
