Jan 18, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Pasquotank
Buffalo soldiers’ raid had incidental casualties When a party of Buffalo soldiers raided the family farm in 1863, my mother’s two great-uncles were sent into the swamp to hide. Both of the teenage boys died soon after as a result of exposure. This story...
Jan 14, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Pasquotank
The Jennings Brothers in “The Pasquotank Boys” My husband’s great grandfather was one of three brothers who joined the Pasquotank Boys to serve in the Civil War. He was James Monroe Jennings (1830-1900), who served along with his brothers, William...
Jan 14, 2016 | Camden, Confederate affiliation
Civil War Letter Identified another Relative My husband’s great-grandfather, James Monroe Jennings, left behind a letter written during the Civil War to his mother, telling her of the death of his brother, William Harney Jennings. We discovered it in 2011 in an...
Jan 9, 2016 | Burke, Confederate affiliation
Those Carpenters answered the call Jonas Carpenter, brother to David and Henry, was born to Jonathan and Barbara Kistler Carpenter in Lincoln County, North Carolina on June 23, 1820. Jonas enlisted in Co. D, 1st N.C. Infantry Regiment as a Confederate private. It is...
Jan 6, 2016 | Clay, Confederate affiliation
Five Brothers in the Civil War Submitted by: Brenda Kay Ledford and Barbara Ledford Wright The shadow of the Civil War loomed over Clay County, North Carolina. Thomas and Eliza Ledford worried that their five sons would enlist and get killed fighting for the...
Jan 6, 2016 | Chatham, Confederate affiliation
He Didn’t Have to Go, but This story was told to me as a youngster in the 1950s by my great-aunt, Kate Dixon Murdock. When I was older I verified it through these soldiers’ individual Confederate Army records and other research. Aunt Kate said that when...
