Jan 27, 2016 | Brunswick, New Hanover, Reconstruction, Union affiliation
Submitted by Susan Hadenchuk; vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe Brown Franklin K. Larabee, 1st Lieutenant, U.S. Army, was born in 1828 in Ashtabula, Ohio. In June of 1861 he enlisted for two years in the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was discharged...
Dec 17, 2015 | Franklin, Union affiliation
Written by Al Peoples; edited by Cheri Todd Molter Based on a Family’s Oral Tradition Union General William T. Sherman met with Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston on April 26, 1865 at Bennett Place near what is now Durham, N.C., and Johnston surrendered his...
Dec 17, 2015 | Johnston, Union affiliation
William Sharpe marched with Gen. Sherman from Atlanta to the sea William Sharpe was my great-great-great-great-grandfather. He was born August 26, 1842 in Hendricks County, Indiana. He enlisted in Company C, 70th Regiment, Indiana Infantry Volunteers, on July 22, 1862...
Apr 12, 2015 | New Hanover, Union affiliation
This Northerner Came To Fight Corporal Samuel V. Mount, U.S. Army, served with the 112th New York Infantry. Wounded in battle at Richmond, he came back to fight in the first and second expeditions against Fort Fisher. He came in with sailors on the beach, under heavy...
Mar 22, 2015 | New Hanover, Union affiliation
By Helen Cannon; vetted by Kobe M. Brown; edited by Cheri Todd Molter Bruce Anderson of Fulton County, New York, was a member of the 142nd New York Infantry, Company K. That gave him the unusual distinction of being an African-American soldier serving in a white Civil...
Dec 2, 2014 | Beaufort, Emancipation, Union affiliation
Big Bob, The Slave Martyr As a little African American girl, I grew up hearing stories about Big Bob, the slave martyr who gave his life for the U.S. Army and Captain Charles Lyons on a Union vessel off Rodman’s Point near Washington, N.C., March 31, 1863. It...
