Jan 25, 2016 | Alamance, Confederate affiliation
Moses Waddell Dobbins enlisted 24 March 1863 Dobbins enlisted as a private and served in Virginia in the medical corps of the 64th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Company I. My family history states that he was in the medical corps at General Lee’s headquarters and...
Jan 25, 2016 | Alamance, Confederate affiliation
Justinian Evans, age 17, served with Cobbs Legion in Georgia He joined Company B&G as a private, serving as a scout with Stonewall Jackson. He rode a black horse named Bullet. They both were small, fast, and unafraid, and both returned from the war without a...
Jan 25, 2016 | Buncombe, Confederate affiliation
Brigadier General William Henry Sebring William Henry Sebring was born December 25, 1840 in St. Louis, MO. His early years were spent on a farm before he enrolled in an academy in St. Louis. At 18 years of age he became a resident of Memphis, TN where he read law...
Jan 22, 2016 | Burke, Confederate affiliation
Wilkes County native fought, then made it home My paternal great-grandmother, Eliza Jane Lail, had a brother named Liler Monroe Lail. Monroe was born about 1843 in Wilkes County, North Carolina to Cynthia and Daniel Lail. At age 18, Monroe was working as a farmer in...
Jan 21, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Martin
The Hidden Confederate My great-aunt, Julia Haughton Bryan, recounted how during the War Between the States a female family member was asked to hide a Confederate from the Yankees in her house. The lady rolled the young man up in a rug and stuffed him under a bed....
Jan 21, 2016 | Burke, Confederate affiliation
Benjamin Franklin as a “Doc” On March 1, 1863, at age 36, my great-great-great-uncle, Benjamin Franklin Earney (Arney) enlisted in Burke County, North Carolina as a private in Company K, N.C. 35th Infantry Regiment. This company was known as the “Burke...
