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...
Sep 8, 2018 | Pitt, Reconstruction, Union affiliation
AUTHOR: Shelton Tucker; Vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown My sister, Dee, the genealogist of the family, told me that a respected historian in Greenville, N.C. said that my great-great-grandfather, Reverend Austin Flood, was the MLK of his day....
Sep 7, 2018 | Madison, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Stokely Caldwell There is an interesting Civil War story regarding a young man from New Hampshire named Timothy McKean who, after many adventures, ended up in North Carolina and changed his name to Charles Hawkins. Timothy R. McKean was born in 1839 in...
Sep 7, 2018 | Chowan, Union affiliation, Washington
SUBMITTED BY: Francis Howcutt From the website “Howcutt and Howcott Family History,” copyright 2018. Miles Howcott was a soldier and farmer. He is an ancestor of a large proportion of the present-day Howcotts in America. Miles and his son William Henry...
Sep 7, 2018 | Burke, Confederate affiliation, Union affiliation
AUTHOR: Edward S. Alexander, Emerging Civil War SUBMITTED BY: Deborah England I found this story about my GG grandfather on the blog, Emerging Civil War. It was written by Edward S. Alexander. As a descendant of the original settlers of Western NC, on both sides of...
Sep 7, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Union affiliation, Union County
SUBMITTED BY: Richard Harding Davis Less than a quarter mile North, as the crow flies, from Perry Brown’s Furniture Factory Outlet World on 200 South lies a historically significant location in Union County. On March 1, 1865, near the intersection of Bigham and...
