Nov 14, 2022 | Antebellum era, Confederate affiliation, Hoke, Robeson
Author: William S. McLean; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter and Leisa Greathouse Before and during the Civil War, Alexander Graham (1800-1865) and Elizabeth Purcell Graham (1806-1888) lived in a Greek Revival cottage on the east side of the Cheraw to...
Aug 5, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Hoke
Two Gillis Men were “Detailed to work at C.S. Arsenal at Fayetteville, N.C.” Two men, David W. Gillis and John A. Gillis, both from an area of Cumberland County that became Hoke County, enlisted in the Confederate Army to serve for the duration of the war on March 1,...
Aug 5, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Hoke
Neill Angus Ray: A Survivor of Point Lookout Prison Camp On June 1, 1864, seventeen-and-a-half-year-old Neill Angus Ray enlisted in the Confederate Army at Wilmington, North Carolina. According to war records, Ray was five-feet-eight-inches tall and had a fair...
