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...
Jan 21, 2016 | Burke, Confederate affiliation
Gettysburg claims a brother Two brothers of my great-grandmother, Susan Young, died while fighting in the Civil War. One was Peter E. Young, who was born in 1834 to Henry and Lavenia Martin Young in Catawba County, North Carolina. Peter enlisted in Burke County on May...
Jan 20, 2016 | Burke, Confederate affiliation
William Henry, the third soldier son William Henry Pitts, my great-great-uncle, was born to John Henry and Sarah Lolly Rogers Pitts in 1841 in Catawba County, North Carolina. He joined two other brothers, Conrad and Abel, fighting the war. William enlisted in Company...
Jan 20, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Randolph
Soldier deserted but returned to fight at Bentonville Logan A. Ridge was the great-great-great-grandfather of my wife Flora Jeanette Ridge. He was the original owner of our farm and a member of Company A 10th NC Heavy Artillery. He deserted at the Battle of Savannah,...
Jan 20, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Jones
Union soldiers robbed the Grey family farm Someone came running through the woods to tell my family that the Yankees were coming. We think these were the soldiers who captured New Bern. The whole family–multiple generations–ran through the house and yard,...
