Aug 14, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Union County
AUTHOR: James Paris James Clontz was a farmer in Union County, North Carolina before the Civil War started. On July 4, 1862, when he was thirty-two years old, he enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private. He served in Company H of the 57th Infantry (North...
Aug 14, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Union County
AUTHOR: James Paris A forty-seven-year-old resident of Union County, NC, John Newton Wilson Sr. enlisted as a private in the Confederate Army on July 4, 1862 in Rowan County. He served in Company H of the 57th Infantry, North Carolina alongside his son, George...
Aug 14, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Union County
AUTHOR: James Paris I had 3 forefathers and 3 uncles in the same 57th Regiment of North Carolina. John Wilson and George Mack Wilson were father and son. Now George was not even married yet because he was only seventeen years old when he enlisted, but after the war,...
Jul 23, 2019 | Caldwell, Confederate affiliation, Union County
SUBMITTED BY: Ben Setser
Sep 17, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Union County
AUTHOR: Unknown Private Green D. Smith was born in 1829 in Union County and there he was conscripted on August 23, 1862 to Company E of the 48th NCST. He had barely joined the company when he became ill with smallpox in the Winter of ’62/’63 and Spring of...
Sep 11, 2018 | Anson, Beaufort, Columbus, Confederate affiliation, Currituck, Edgecombe, Nash, Rowan, Union County, Wilkes
SUBMITTED BY: Tom Fagart True to the Tar Heel Confederate Solider Motto: “First, Farthest, Foremost, and Last” Board Member Friends of Elmira Civil War Prison Camp, Elmira, NY. www.elmiraprisoncamp.com, Member Friends of Fort Fisher, Kure Beach, NC,...
