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....
Sep 10, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Granville
Jacob Wagner’s Civil War Jacob Wagner, my great-great-grandfather, was a member of Wiedrich’s New York Light Artillery from Buffalo, NY. He came alone from Germany at age 16 and joined the battery on his 21st birthday. His first battle was Gettysburg,...
Aug 31, 2015 | Antebellum era, Burke, Confederate affiliation
Submitted by Louisa Emmons; Edited by Cheri Todd Molter (Contains both the family’s oral traditions and results of research) John Murphy Walton, son of Col. Thomas George Walton and Eliza Murphy Walton, was born at the family’s home, “Creekside,” in...
