Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Rowan
AUTHOR: Unknown John F. Agner was born 1833 and was the son of Isaac and Christiana Agner from Rowan County, NC. He was promoted to Full Sergeant on 01 Sep 1862. He was promoted to Full Private on 01 Nov 1862. He enlisted in Company B, North Carolina 46th Infantry...
Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Rowan
AUTHOR: Unknown William J. Hill was born 1817 in Rowan County, NC. He was the son of Henry and Jane Hill. He was married three times: Milly Pool (1841), Avelina Black (1847), and Rachel Shepherd (17 July 1851). He was the father of 10 children, 6 boys and 4...
Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Iredell, Rowan
AUTHOR: Unknown The oldest of three boys to serve for the South, Rinehardt Emanuel Beaver or “Manuel” as he was called, was born in Rowan County in 1837. Manuel was 2nd to enlist on January 25, 1862 in Salisbury in Co. B of the 42nd NC State Troops. He...
Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Iredell, Rowan
AUTHOR: Unknown Levi Adolphus Beaver was born in Rowan County in 1840, one of three brothers who would fight to defend the Southern Cause. Amazingly, all three returned home. “Dolph,” as he was called by friends and family, enlisted as a Private in...
Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Rowan
AUTHOR: Unknown Born in Rowan County in 1824, Andrew Bostian farmed until his conscription to Company K, 5th NCST on August 8, 1862 in Statesville. He would see a fair amount of action with the 5th and would be wounded in the hand at Brandy Station, Virginia. He was...
Sep 13, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Rowan
AUTHOR: Joel R. Stegall The American Civil War has been called a lot of things, but two descriptions are rather inventive: The Late Unpleasantness;[1] and, An Objective History of the War of Northern Aggression.[2] Whatever label one may apply to that American...
