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...
Mar 31, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Haywood
Treacherous Hosts: A Difficult Journey Home Solomon David Finger didn’t take kindly to the people who wanted to murder him while he was on his way home from Camp Chase, a Union prison in Columbus, Ohio, where he had been a prisoner for nine months. The Civil War...
Mar 21, 2016 | Caswell, Confederate affiliation, Reconstruction
by Al Boswell; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter My great-great-grandfather was Private George W. Chandler. He was born Jan. 4, 1832, the son of Pleasant and Martha Chandler. He was married to Elizabeth Ligon Boswell on Nov. 5, 1857. They owned land, lived and...
