Sep 13, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Rowan
SUBMITTED BY: Michael P. Brown He was a volunteer for the Confederate Army, July 3, 1861, at age 20 in Rowan County. He fought in the Battle of Manassas and Williamsburg before he was taken prisoner in Maryland in 1862. He fell ill in prison. He served as a nurse in...
Sep 11, 2018 | Anson, Beaufort, Columbus, Confederate affiliation, Currituck, Edgecombe, Nash, Rowan, Union County, Wilkes
SUBMITTED BY: Tom Fagart True to the Tar Heel Confederate Solider Motto: “First, Farthest, Foremost, and Last” Board Member Friends of Elmira Civil War Prison Camp, Elmira, NY. www.elmiraprisoncamp.com, Member Friends of Fort Fisher, Kure Beach, NC,...
Sep 6, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Reconstruction, Rowan, Union County
Written by Joel Ringgold Stegall; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter By the time the Civil War began in 1861, Great-Granddaddy Thomas Bottom Stegall was already 47 or 48 years old, too old for combat duty. As the war dragged on, and North Carolina began to run out...
Sep 15, 2017 | Confederate affiliation, Rowan
Thomas Davis Rice (Source: contributed by William D. Kenerly) Thomas Davis Rice was my great grandfather. He enlisted and was a private in the Civil War. After the War, he signed the Oath of Allegiance to the United States in Salisbury. He became a farmer and...
