May 4, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
Disease, Not Lead, Found This Trooper Joseph W. Boys was a private in the United States Army, serving with the 112th New York. (A regimental history written by a chaplain with the 112th can be found online.) Joseph, a mortician, survived the action at Fort Fisher but...
May 4, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
Coming Home Was Hard, Too Private William Peoples, U.S. Army, served in Pennypacker’s Brigade, in the Pennsylvania 203rd Regiment. He was from the part of Pennsylvania where Pennypacker lived. He survived both Fort Fisher and the war, but died at the age of 28...
May 4, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Guilford
Junior Reserve Officer Saw Serious Action Second Lieutenant George M. Glass served in the 4th Battalion, North Carolina Junior Reserves. He was stationed at Battery Buchanan, then went to Fort Holmes. He fought at Wise’s Forks and then at Bentonville. He...
Apr 30, 2015 | Ashe, Confederate affiliation
Long Walk Awaited P.O.W. Elihu Weaver, a resident of Ashe County and my great-great-grandfather, enlisted in the Confederate army on July 8, 1862. He was part of the 5th North Carolina Cavalry Battalion that was organized in Jacksboro, Tenn. in the fall of 1862. He...
Apr 27, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Wake
Persistence vs. Sherman’s Army A story tells about General Sherman and his troops coming down Old Stage Road in Wake County through Willow Spring, to the Hugh Rias Blalock homeplace on what is now Highway 42 East. Sherman’s men took mules, horses, wagons...
Apr 16, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson
John C. Fann Family Lost Four Sons John C. Fann and Bythenia Kelly married and raised a large family, including seven sons. Six of their sons were soldiers in the Civil War. Four of them did not come home. James, John, and Owen enlisted in June and August of 1861....
