Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Rockingham
AUTHOR: Unknown John L. Southard was born 1839 and was the son of James and Ruth Gilliam Southard. He was a private in the 45th North Carolina Regiment called the Madison Greys. He resided in Rockingham County, NC and enlisted in Wayne County on May 8, 1862. He...
Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Orange, Rockingham
AUTHOR: Unknown Labern Isley was born 1828 in Orange County, NC and moved with his family to Rockingham County. He was the son of William and Sally Isley. He was married to Frances Godsey on 25 September 1851. He was a private in the 45th North Carolina Regiment...
Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Rockingham
AUTHOR: Unknown Samuel Thomas Gann was born in Rockingham County, North Carolina in 1824. He grew up running his own farm and had acquired the trade of shoemaker along the way. As the war approached, his age and family kept him at home when many of the young men...
Sep 10, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Rockingham
SUBMITTED BY: Catherine Bowers Southworth This document is an excerpt from “Letters Home to Baughn’s Mountain” transcribed in 1979 by Ellen Flythe Frontis Cross, great-granddaughter of John Henry and Martha Ann Baughn Stone. Some of these letters are heart-wrenching;...
