by Ann T. Tinder | Mar 23, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
Immigrant Served Twice in Wartime John C. Koch, a corporal in the Confederate army, was born in 1842 in Wehldorf, a province of Hanover Germany. It is not known when John arrived in Wilmington, but he enlisted in Company A, 18th North Carolina Infantry, on April 15,...
by Helen Cannon | Mar 22, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
Medal of Honor for Fort Fisher Action Bruce Anderson of Fulton County, New York, was a member of the 142nd New York Infantry, Company K. That gave him the unusual distinction of being an African-American soldier serving in a white Civil War regiment. Having earned the...
by Dale Coleman Spencer | Mar 22, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
Illness Ended the War for a Young Artilleryman George F. Flowers, Private, CSA, joined the 2nd North Carolina Light Artillery, Co. G, at age 17. George was captured on the Cape Fear River on June 25, 1864, and sent to Fort Monroe, Va. He was then sent to the Point...
by Bob Brewer (Gaithersburg, Md.) | Mar 22, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
Reassignment spared unit from the Jacob H. Idol (Eitel) was a private in the Confederate army. At some point, Co. A, 42nd North Carolina Infantry, were guards at the Salisbury prisoner of war camp. Some soldiers voted to go to the “Eastern Theatre” Army of Northern VA...
by Phyllis Smith | Dec 5, 2014 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
Gen. Sherman Comes Calling on Scotland (from “Legacy of the Committed,” Laurinburg, Bill Evans Press, 1982) Betty Myers of Laurinburg was my eighth grade history teacher — and a good one — and is the local history guru of that area. Sherman was at Old...
