Sep 5, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Forsyth
AUTHOR: Jeanette Yarbrough (Click photo to enlarge.) Sylvanus David Davis was born in Surry County, North Carolina on September 8, 1832. Before the Civil War, around 1857, Davis came to Pfafftown, North Carolina and lived in the home of A. C. Transou. Afterward, he...
Sep 5, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Forsyth
AUTHOR: Phyllis Jacobs Charles Rothrock was a citizen of Forsyth County in the Friedberg community and a member of the Moravian Church there. When the war came he entered the service of the Confederacy, being a member of Company I, 33rd Regiment. Charles was severely...
Mar 25, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Forsyth
Back to the Farm – the Hard Way John Foster Landreth, my great-great-great-grandfather, was born Jan. 18, 1826 in Stokes County. He was the eldest documented son of Obadiah Landreth and Mahalia Branson Landreth. Like his father, he was a farmer. His family did not own...
Nov 7, 2014 | Confederate affiliation, Forsyth
Three Days in Maryland, 1862 Captain Chalmers Lanier Glenn of Rockingham County served in Company I, Third North Carolina Regiment. (William Dorsey Pender was his 1st Colonel.) Glenn was killed in the bloodbath at South Mountain on Sept. 14, 1862. Brigadier General...
