Oct 16, 2015 | Burke, Confederate affiliation
Written by Joe W. Avery; Vetted & edited by Cheri Todd Molter On Sept. 15, 1862, Thomas L. Morrison, my great-great-grandfather, was conscripted into the Confederate army. He mustered into Company A of the 6th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, as a private on...
Oct 15, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Stanly
Tried to hide his son from the Draft Board Daniel Christenberry Kirk, my great-great-great-grandfather, was a farmer on Morrow Mountain along the Pee Dee River. When the war broke out, Daniel’s two oldest sons, James and George, enlisted in the Confederate Army....
Oct 15, 2015 | Burke, Confederate affiliation
The Soldier’s Choice A Confederate soldier is given an assignment to lie in wait for a Union courier who is carrying important papers. The Confederate is, “at all costs,” to bring those documents back with him. The Union courier is singing a beloved...
Oct 7, 2015 | Chatham, Confederate affiliation, Guilford
Submitted by Nancy Pittman; Vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter Born on November 13, 1837, Levi Branson Williams was the son of Ezekiel Randolph and Agnes Williams of Guilford County. At an early age, he was orphaned and left in the care of his grandfather, Nathan...
Sep 15, 2015 | Alamance, Confederate affiliation
Family stories of the Underground Railroad Excerpted from “Ramblings of a Country Boy,” by Stephen Arthur Cohagan (my grandfather), written 1953. (Private papers) “Grandfather (John Pugh Jay) and Grandmother (Rachel Commons Jay) maintained a...
Sep 12, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Lenoir
Killing Yankees in the Hog Pen My great-great-grandfather, James B. Vause, served with the “Lenoir Braves.” He was captured at Hatteras Island and held as a prisoner of war at Fort Warren, Massachusetts, until his release in a prisoner exchange in 1862....
