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...
Feb 18, 2019 | Union affiliation, Washington
SUBMITTED BY: Fredric William Booth Introduction: These letters written by Joseph Goldinger, a private in Company E of the 103rd Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, while he was stationed in North Carolina. Joseph was about twenty years old when he enlisted, for...
Feb 7, 2019 | Guilford, New Hanover, Union affiliation, Wake
Submitted by Willa Atkinson; Edited by Cheri Todd Molter My Great-Grandmother Elizabeth Knox Lanigan (1905-2005) preserved the letters that Lyman Beecher Hannaford wrote during his Civil War experience; she had them safely tucked away in a drawer for decades. The...
Feb 7, 2019 | Union affiliation, Wayne
AUTHOR: Marvin Peguese My 3rd great-grandfather, Daniel Huff, served in the Civil War under an alias—Daniel Nazareth—after joining Union General William T. Sherman on his destructive, victorious march through the south. (Click image below to enlarge) I noticed...
