by CCW | Oct 23, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Duplin
AUTHOR: Donald Reaves Robert Reaves was my 3rd great uncle, the older brother to my 2nd great-grandfather, David Reaves of the Wolfscrape District of Duplin County. David Reaves served as a 1st Lieutenant in the Duplin County Home Guard. Their youngest brother and my...
by CCW | Oct 8, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Duplin
SUBMITTED BY: Leon (Sonny) Sikes COMPILED AND EDITED BY: Robert and Elsie J. Aycock Note from the History Center: The letters at the link below were photocopied and put into PDF form from the booklet, “The Civil War Letters of W. D. Carr of Duplin County,...
by CCW | Sep 6, 2018 | Duplin, Union affiliation
AUTHOR: Charles Brown My wife’s great grandfather, Jordan Bennett, was from Duplin County, North Carolina. He is listed in Family Search as being a member of the 8th US Colored Heavy Artillery. He enlisted on Jun 25, 1864 at Paducah, KY as Corporal; he was 20...
by Michael Deal | Feb 3, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Duplin
Isaac Deal, Confederate soldier Isaac Deal, the son of William Deal and Malinda (Linda) Pickett, was born on June 12, 1840 in Duplin County, where he resided as a farmer. Isaac married Hannah Susan Henderson in New Hanover County on Sept. 16, 1860. On July 8, 1862, at...
by Mary Bowen Caputo | Jan 26, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Duplin, Pender
SUBMITTED By Mary Bowen Caputo; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown John Wright Bowen was born in rural Duplin Country in 1846. According to official military records, Bowen enlisted in March of 1864 as a private who served in Company I of the...
by Janice Lee Miller | Jan 26, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Duplin
Amos Lee was a neighborhood tooth-puller Amos Lee lived in the town of Willard in Duplin County. He was a private in the 8th Senior Reserves during the Civil War. After the war, he was a farmer, bridge-builder, and tooth-puller. If anyone had a bad tooth, they would...
