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 31, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Macon
My Family: A Story of Heroes, Tears, Love, and War The Kuykendall family came into the United States in 1741 at New Albany [Fort Orange], New York. My 5th great-grandfather on my mother’s side was Abraham Kuykendall. A Revolutionary War captain, he is buried at...
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...
Mar 2, 2016 | Catawba, Confederate affiliation, Union affiliation
Submitted by Nancy Werking Poling; Vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter On May 19, 1862, eighteen-year-old John Henry Smith of Catawba County was mustered into the Confederate army. John Henry served in Company B of the 54th North Carolina Infantry. On Nov. 7, 1863,...
Feb 28, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Randolph
Exempt or not exempt, Miller did his service Jesse A. Miller was born on July 12, 1840 in Randolph County, the eldest son of Riley and Rachel Allred Miller. In the 1850s, Jesse’s father built the Uwharrie Cliff Grist Mill, later called Millers Mill, on the...
