![“[T]hat was the time when it was enough to make one think of home and all that we had left behind us. it was perfectfuly [sic] frightful to hear the shells come crashing through the woods and pass over our heads”: Transcriptions of a Letter written by Thomas Barnaby](https://nccivilwarcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Barnaby-p1-1080x675.jpg)
May 2, 2024 | Craven, Martin, Union affiliation
Submission written and letter transcribed by Cheri Todd Molter On August 29, 1862, Thomas J. Barnaby, a 23-year-old Clerk, enlisted in the Union Army at Dorchester, MA. He served in Company G of the MA 44th Infantry. The following are transcriptions of a letter he...
Apr 9, 2019 | Martin, Union affiliation
AUTHOR: Nia Jai I still find it amazing that I had an ancestor who fought in the Civil War. But it’s mind-blowing to know that I had not one, but two (and maybe more)! The information surrounding my great-great-great grandfather Isaac Bain(s) was intriguing to...
Apr 9, 2019 | Martin, Union affiliation
Enlisted: 11 March 1864 (Norfolk, VA/Washington, NC) Mustered Out: 11 February 1867 (Raleigh, NC) AUTHOR: Nia Jai Originally, this story was supposed to be about the things I’d already learned about the Griffins, but as I pulled together information for the...
Jan 21, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Martin
The Hidden Confederate My great-aunt, Julia Haughton Bryan, recounted how during the War Between the States a female family member was asked to hide a Confederate from the Yankees in her house. The lady rolled the young man up in a rug and stuffed him under a bed....
