Jan 26, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Randolph, Wake
“Four Hopkins boys walked off in early November of 1861 to join the fight,” my dad said after I told him about finding Barney Hopkins — sergeant, Company H, 38th Regiment of North Carolina — buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh. I had stumbled across Barney’s grave...
Jan 26, 2016 | Burke, Confederate affiliation
Written by Joe W. Avery; edited by Cheri Todd Molter Twenty-one-year-old Henry Harrison Avery, son of James and Elizabeth Hollingsworth Brown Avery of Morganton, North Carolina, enlisted on April 25, 1861, as a private in Company G of the North Carolina 1st...
Jan 26, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Pasquotank
Gettysburg bullet and its victim shared a postwar history My great-grandfather, George W. Harrell, fought with the North Carolina troops at Gettysburg. He was shot in the upper part of his torso (maybe his back), and walked back to Elizabeth City. The bullet could not...
Jan 26, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Duplin, Pender
SUBMITTED By Mary Bowen Caputo; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown John Wright Bowen was born in rural Duplin Country in 1846. According to official military records, Bowen enlisted in March of 1864 as a private who served in Company I of the...
Jan 26, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Duplin
An Oral Tradition: Amos Lee was the Neighborhood Tooth-puller Amos Lee lived in the town of Willard in Duplin County. He was a private in the 8th Senior Reserves during the Civil War. After the war, he was a farmer, bridge-builder, and tooth-puller. If anyone had a...
Jan 25, 2016 | Alamance, Confederate affiliation
Russell Daniel Lord enlisted at age 23 Russell Daniel Lord enlisted at age 23 on 26 Sep 1861 as a private in Company A, Georgia, 38th Regiment. He fought in many conflicts from the Seven Days’ Battles to Cold Harbor and was active around Appomattox. He received...
