Jun 28, 2017 | News, Reconstruction
Where did all the treason trials go? Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to...
Jun 28, 2017 | News, Reconstruction
A summer of change, a long winter of resistance As hopes and honeysuckle bloomed, a century and a half ago, forces were massing to ensure that the dreams of newly liberated slaves and their white supporters would never take root. At the federal level, slavery had been...
Feb 14, 2017 | Confederate affiliation, Randolph, Reconstruction
From Warrior to Renowned Artisan (Source: Contributed by Roger H. Futrell) William Henry Hancock (1844-1923)[1] of Randolph County, North Carolina, was a Confederate veteran who worked as a potter in the eastern Piedmont between 1865 and 1900. Examples of his...
Feb 8, 2017 | Clay, Confederate affiliation, Reconstruction
Submitted by Jerry H. Padgett and Willis P. Whichard; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter Andrew Jackson Curtis was the first son of Madison and Sarah Curtis and the brother of our great-grandmother, Julia. He was the second child in a family of nine surviving...
Aug 17, 2016 | News, Reconstruction
Reconstruction: the insurgency that followed the war This is the sesquicentennial of Reconstruction, an ugly but historically important period in which the Union, having won a long and ghastly Civil War, lost the peace to the same set of antagonists. That realization...
Aug 5, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Randolph, Reconstruction
William Penn Wood: Wounded and Left to Die William Penn Wood was born in Asheboro, North Carolina on May 2, 1843. Wood was a son of Penuel and Calista Birkhead Wood. His youth was spent in Randolph County where he attended public schools from 1850 until 1861. As a...
