Oct 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Union affiliation, Yancey
AUTHOR: Cynthia McCurry Putman Oliver and Mary Polly Tucker McCourry (click to enlarge) My second great grandfather was named Oliver McCourry. He was the grandson of Malcolm McCourry, who was in the American Revolution. Oliver was born around 1843 to Malcolm McCourry...
Oct 11, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, McDowell, Union affiliation
Submitted by: Sid Stroupe & Mike Stroupe; Edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter At the age of twenty-five, Alfred J. Stroup was conscripted into the Confederate States Army at McDowell County, N.C.. Serving as a private, Stroup was mustered into Company K of the...
Oct 8, 2018 | Bertie, Confederate affiliation, Reconstruction, Union affiliation
Submitted by Richard S. White, Great-Great-Grandson of Van Buren White; Vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter Van Buren White, son of John “Jackey” White and Frances Hoggard White, was born in 1840 in White’s District on Pine Ridge Road in Bertie County, North...
Sep 12, 2018 | Union affiliation
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Sep 11, 2018 | Iredell, Union affiliation, Wayne
AUTHOR: Betty Bowles Haywood You might call me one-quarter Yankee. My great-grandfather, Major Hiram Grant, came to Goldsboro as part of the Army of Occupation after the Civil War. He was first cousin to General U.S. Grant. Hiram had four children whom he sent to New...
Sep 8, 2018 | Richmond, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: John Jacobs My ancestor William Jacobs was a mulatto farmer in Richmond County during the Civil War. He was known in the county to be a Union loyalist. His father, Zachariah Jacobs, was a patriot of the Revolutionary War, from Brunswick County, NC, and...
