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...
Apr 26, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Union affiliation, Watauga
AUTHOR: Brenda Farthing Cooter My Great-Great-grandfather, Joshua Winkler, was the son of John Winkler and Mary Pinion Pennell, born on Oct. 14, 1816 in Wilkes County, NC. Joshua’s maternal grandparents were Benj. Pennell and Elizabeth Judd. Elizabeth was the daughter...
Apr 9, 2019 | Martin, Union affiliation
AUTHOR: Nia Jai I still find it amazing that I had an ancestor who fought in the Civil War. But it’s mind-blowing to know that I had not one, but two (and maybe more)! The information surrounding my great-great-great grandfather Isaac Bain(s) was intriguing to...
Apr 9, 2019 | Martin, Union affiliation
Enlisted: 11 March 1864 (Norfolk, VA/Washington, NC) Mustered Out: 11 February 1867 (Raleigh, NC) AUTHOR: Nia Jai Originally, this story was supposed to be about the things I’d already learned about the Griffins, but as I pulled together information for the...
Apr 2, 2019 | Madison, Union affiliation
Submitted by: Jeanie Lewis Parker My grandmother, Lizzie Franklin, told me lots of stories when I was growing up in Madison County, N.C., one of which was of her grandfather, William “Bill” Gentry. Now, we all know that N.C. was divided in their loyalties during...
