Aug 3, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
Martha Caroline Potts Pierson’s Experience with ‘Kirk’s Raiders’ Born in 1858, Martha Caroline, the daughter of Allen Potts and Susan Wade Potts, lived in the Yellow Mountain area of North Carolina. Martha was just about 5 years old when Yankee...
Aug 3, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
Written by Jane Gibson Nardy; edited by Cheri Todd Molter From April 186l through the spring of 1865, the Civil War exacted a heavy toll on the citizens of Cashiers Valley. The first part of the war saw sons, husbands and fathers joining the Confederacy and marching...
Aug 3, 2016 | Jackson, Union affiliation
Col. George Washington Kirk: That ‘Scalawag, Bushwhacker Man’ A few decades ago, I was asked by an elderly cousin if I knew anything about the ‘scalawag, bushwhacker man named Kirk’ who terrorized the Cashiers Valley area during the Civil War....
Jul 27, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Jackson
Finding His Way Home: A Soldier’s Move from Virginia to North Carolina Originally from Black Lick, Wythe County, Virginia, William Everett Miller found himself displaced and relocated to a new home in western North Carolina after the Civil War ended. His father—Jacob...
