Feb 26, 2020 | Hertford, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Elizabeth Jones (edited by Cheri Todd Molter) An Illustration of General Foster’s troops disembarking at Winton, N.C. Click to enlarge. This was the prelude to the burning of the town of Winton, which occurred in February 1862.
Feb 26, 2020 | Antebellum era, Hertford, Reconstruction, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Elizabeth Jones (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) The following is an excerpt from The Secession Movement in North Carolina, which was written by Dr. Joseph Carlyle Sitterson and published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1939: “The...
Feb 10, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Polk, Union affiliation
AUTHOR: Oren Jerry Hill, Jr. (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Geographical, cultural, political, and socioeconomical diversity in the mountain counties of North Carolina led to the occurrence of a wide range of incidents, from those of unusual cruelty to...
Feb 10, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover, Reconstruction, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: JC Knowles (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Willis Richardson, an African American playwright, was born to Willis Wilder and Agnes Ann Harper Richardson on November 5, 1889. He and his parents lived in Wilmington, North Carolina. When he was...
Feb 10, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Union affiliation, Union County
SUBMITTED BY: Steve Bailey (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Abstracted from the February 2020 Issue of the Marshville N.C. Museum & Cultural Center Newsletter: “[In July 1864], the army of the Union and the army of the Confederacy were locked in vicious...
Feb 10, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Sampson, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Sandra White Hinton (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Here is a picture of Ann Eliza Brown White (1838-1927). She was born in Sampson County, North Carolina, on Aug. 8, 1838. Ann married Murdock White and was Lt. Lal White’s sister-in-law (some...