Sep 5, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Robeson
AUTHOR: Leslie F. Cashwell His home: Black Ankle area of Eastern NC Enlisted at age 18 (Aug 27, 1861) Assigned to Third Artillery (40th State Troops) Captured at Fort Fisher NC on Jan 15, 1865 POW at Point Lookout, MD – Arrival on Jan 22, 1865 Released on June...
Dec 17, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Robeson
Pvt. William Townsend of Robeson County William Townsend was born in 1842 in Robeson County. He was 6 feet, six inches tall and a private in the 18th North Carolina Regiment, 8th Volunteers, Branch and Lane Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. After the war he farmed,...
Dec 4, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Cumberland, Reconstruction, Robeson
Romance Kindled During Union Occupation of Fayetteville As characteristic of the military presence in the Fayetteville area throughout the years, soldier boys met, fell in love with, and married local girls. This was true not only in the case of my parents, but also...
Mar 23, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Robeson
Death Reached Far Beyond the Battlefield Neill Stephen Kinlaw of Robeson County, a private in the Confederate army, survived the assault on Fort Fisher, but not the war. Captured at Fort Fisher, he was taken to the prison camp at Elmira, N.Y. He died one month later....
Mar 23, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Robeson
Smallpox Killed Elmira POW James McKay Suggs was a private in the Confederate army, serving with the 36th North Carolina, Co. H. James died of smallpox while imprisoned at Elmira,...
Mar 22, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Robeson
Artilleryman Had a Long Walk Home Joseph Haywood Chason, from Lumber Bridge, N.C., volunteered to join the Confederacy for a three-year enlistment in February 1862. He was assigned to Fort Fisher the entire time as an artilleryman, with the rank of private. Joseph was...
