Sep 6, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Wake
AUTHOR: Kristina (last name not provided) I am a descendant of Lieutenant Luther Rice Mills of the 26th Virginia Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia. While he lived in Virginia at the time of the War, I thought that you might find his story interesting as after the...
Feb 9, 2017 | Confederate affiliation, Wake
Annie Mae Adams Akins Shares her Mother’s Stories about The Aftermath of the War Between the States The following is a transcript of a taped interview, recorded in 1985, with my mother, Annie Mae Adams Akins. She shared an account of General Sherman’s troops...
Feb 22, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Wake
Excerpts from the diary of Ellie Carus Beckwith Stringfield (1856-1950) “This is Ellie Beckwith Stringfield writing. I was born May 2, 1856, in Western part of Wake County, NC. My parents were also born in the same County and State. “My father was Calvin...
Jan 26, 2016 | Confederate affiliation, Randolph, Wake
“Four Hopkins boys walked off in early November of 1861 to join the fight,” my dad said after I told him about finding Barney Hopkins — sergeant, Company H, 38th Regiment of North Carolina — buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh. I had stumbled across Barney’s grave...
Apr 27, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Wake
Persistence vs. Sherman’s Army A story tells about General Sherman and his troops coming down Old Stage Road in Wake County through Willow Spring, to the Hugh Rias Blalock homeplace on what is now Highway 42 East. Sherman’s men took mules, horses, wagons...
Apr 14, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Wake
A Rough Knock on A Capitol Door In the 1960’s I would often go with my father, G. H. (Jerry) Elliott, then the Press Secretary to Governor Dan K. Moore, to his office in the Capitol in Raleigh. I would always stop to look at one of the first-floor doors which,...
