by CCW | Sep 6, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Reconstruction, Rowan, Union County
AUTHOR: Joel Ringgold Stegall 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 of young men to give their lives for this...
by William D. Kenerly | 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...