Feb 27, 2025 | Confederate affiliation, Pitt, This Month's Featured Story
Transcribed by Cheri Todd Molter Original Transcription: Camp of Starr’s Light Battery Greenville NC Apr 21st 1862 Hon J. Davis Pres C.S. I see by a...
Feb 17, 2025 | Confederate affiliation, Cumberland, This Month's Featured Story
Submitted by Matthew Howell; Vetted by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown; Edited by Cheri Todd Molter In Fayetteville, known as Cross Creek until 1778, there are many old cemeteries.[1] The oldest is the first Cross Creek Cemetery, which was established in 1785.[2]...
Oct 14, 2024 | Antebellum era, Emancipation, This Month's Featured Story, Washington
Submitted by Somerset Place State Historic Site; edited by Cheri Todd Molter In 1859, Josiah Collins III wrote a letter to Harriet Jacobs, a formerly enslaved woman who had escaped bondage in Edenton by hiding in her grandmother’s crawlspace for seven years. Harriet...
Jul 26, 2024 | Northampton, Reconstruction, This Month's Featured Story
Written by Mary E. C. Drew; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown In 1831, just over three decades before Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery in America, an enslaved Virginian named Nat Turner, along with a group of armed enslaved...
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May 2, 2024 | Craven, Martin, This Month's Featured Story, Union affiliation
Submission written and letter transcribed by Cheri Todd Molter On August 29, 1862, Thomas J. Barnaby, a 23-year-old Clerk, enlisted in the Union Army at Dorchester, MA. He served in Company G of the MA 44th Infantry. The following are transcriptions of a letter he...
Feb 13, 2024 | Antebellum era, Emancipation, Guilford, This Month's Featured Story
Written by Cheri Todd Molter In his article entitled “Hidden Figure: How a Black Washerwoman Helped Free 15 Slaves,” Ross Howell, Jr. writes, “We don’t know where ‘Vina’ was born or how she died. We have no likeness of her—no etching or drawing. Yet a Guilford College...
