May 16, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson, Union affiliation, Wayne
SUBMITTED BY: Yvonne Spell Williams; Vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter A Mixture of Both Our Family’s Oral Traditions and Documented Information I was born and raised in Sampson County, North Carolina. We lived in Cumberland until we moved to Utah to be...
May 15, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Joel W. Rose; Written by Stephen Lee; edited by Cheri Todd Molter (Photograph above by Joel Rose of the Bullard farm house, located on Carry Bridge Road in the Hayne community of Sampson County, NC.) Generations of descendants of Thomas Bullard...
May 15, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Joel W. Rose Written By E.M. Bullard (1880-1959)Early in March of 1865 one division of Sherman’s Army, composed largely of Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio troops, broke camp at Blockersville (now Stedman) and began their march through Sampson County. A troop...
May 15, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Joel W. Rose Penny Alderman was a young farm wife in antebellum North Carolina. Her husband, Reverend Amariah B. Alderman, was a Baptist minister who served many churches from the south end of Sampson county. Written in 1854, her diary records Penny’s...
May 15, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Pender, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Robert Jones This would be considered a “Wagon” or “Surgeon’s” canteen because of its larger size. It has a diameter of 10 ½” x 6” deep and stamped on one side of the canteen is “N C”, for North Carolina. It has a raised “bung” and tightly lapped wooden...
May 15, 2019 | Cumberland, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Alfred Ferguson The following is an excerpt from a book that includes the letters written by my great-grandfather Lt. Franklin Murphy. He helped demolish the Fayetteville Arsenal. An excerpt from Bernard A. Olsen’s (2000) A Billy Yank Governor, the Life...
