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Troy Kivett’s Story

SUBMITTED BY:  Lisa Kelly (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Troy Kivett was the youngest of the children born to John A. and Mary Wellborn Kivett of Randolph County, North Carolina. On June 10, 1861, Troy enlisted in the Confederate Army as a Private. He...

A Tale of Two Brothers

SUBMITTED BY:  Joseph R. Suggs (Originally posted July 27, 2016; corrections made July 17, 2020) Lewis Osborn Sugg was born September 6, 1845 in Randolf County, and he was the son of Merritt A. Sugg and Tempy Spinks Sugg. The family story maintains that Lewis’s...

The Battle Flag Comes Home

AUTHOR:  Joseph R. Suggs [Written for The State, vol. 36, May 1, 1969 by Joseph R. Suggs] The battle flag of the Randolph Hornets—Company M, 22nd North Carolina Militia, CSA—has come home again to Randolph County from whence it departed over one hundred years ago. In...

Captain Shubal G. Worth

This piece was submitted to the Fayetteville Observer at an unknown date and resubmitted by Marsha F. Haithcock to the North Carolina Civil War & Reconstruction History Center on January 25, 2016: Note received from Curtis Older on 12/31/18: “Dear Sir or...

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