December 2021 Year End Update

History Center included in state budget for $59.6 million

“Recollections of a Private”: A Piece Published in the Anson Times in 1885

The State Convention of the Colored People of North Carolina at Raleigh, September 29, 1865

Bureau’s Records Reveal John Mayo’s Respect for Three Men Who Served in the USCT

An 1893 Article from Wadesboro’s Newspaper Entitled “A Watch with a History”

Wallace Alexander Propst: One of Catawba County’s Oldest Citizens in 1921

The Lynching of Archibald Beebe

A Letter Written on January 25, 1863, by Frederick W. Dellinger to his father, Frederick L. Dellinger

A Letter Written on November 5, 1862, by Frederick W. Dellinger to his father, Frederick L. Dellinger

A Letter Written on May 6, 1862, by Frederick L. Dellinger to his son, Frederick Washington Dellinger

A Letter Written on July 20, 1862, by Frederick L. Dellinger to his son, Frederick Washington Dellinger

The Transcribed Will of Ezekiel Black of Mecklenburg County

A Letter to My Grandfather, Edward Wootten, by his Mother, Eliza Wootten, at her home at 11 S. Third Street, Wilmington, NC

“Under the Porch”: A Story Passed Down by my Great-Grandfather

The Story of My Great-Great-Great-Grandfather, David Hickson Huff (1833 – 1865)

The Story of William Gould I: An Excerpt from “Stanford professor finds inspiration, fortitude from the diaries of his great-grandfather, who escaped slavery”

The Giraffe / Robert E. Lee

Holman’s Crossroads

Kilpatrick’s Shirttail Skedaddle

Timeline related to the Levy land in Cumberland County, NC

William Turner Faircloth

Frying Pan Goes to War

Capt. Daniel Patterson

Raleigh’s Confederate Hospitals

Ellis Franklin Jarrell

Dr. Edward Buncombe Haughton

Confederate Private John Land, Company B, 11th N.C. Infantry

The Last Headquarters of the Confederacy, A Mixture of Oral History (as told by John W. Dickson) and Research

Nancy “Nance” Martin

Daniel Dwiggins: Circuit-Riding Preacher

The Hartleys’ Ferry on the Yadkin

The Transcription of a Letter Written by Edwin Bevers to his Wife, Mother, and Sister

Diary of a Union Soldier Crossing Sampson–1865

List of Company C, 14th N.C. Regiment’s Wounded & Dead, July 10, 1862

A Deserter, Shot for Wanting to See His Family

William Ayers, Coston, and John Richardson Davis: Three Brothers who Served the Confederacy during the Civil War

John H. Holyfield: “This old Confederate veteran has some pluck yet”

Watson B. Holyfield: A Confederate Soldier Who Was Wounded Multiple Times

The Three Wise Men of Avery County

Samuel A’Court Ashe

Lt. James B. Pool of Company G, 37th Regiment of the North Carolina Troops

$100 Reward for the Return of Jerry

William Haney [Brooks]

“You have never known the cruelties of these people”: A Letter Written by A. F. Flood to the Freedmen’s Bureau

Farming in North Carolina, 1889

Civil War History

December 2020 Year End Update

Ransom Naylor, A Civil War Soldier

“Relating how the McAdams, Roneys, and Rippys are Blood Kin to Dukes”: A Letter to Rev. Joseph “Mack” McAdams from L. D. Rippy of Alamance County

“Glory, Glory, Glory”: The Story of Grandmother Norton

The Military Careers of Two Brothers, James M. Patterson & Armistead Patterson

Charles Wesley Cecil: Reluctant Confederate, Teller of Tall Tales

The Henry W. Jones Papers

Incidents in the Life of John Robert Draughon, as Remembered by his Daughter, Elizabeth Catherine Draughon Godwin

George Lauder: Set in Stone

William and Martha Haney

James Hamilton Thomas

An oral history of assumed desertion

Some stories about my great-grandparents, John Edwin and Laura Lee Dalton Fultz

Great-granddaddy David Crockett Lunsford

Letters from a Confederate soldier

A physical phenomenon: Hester “Hettie” Massey

Two articles about the lives and family of John Wesley and Sarah Frances Howell

The Story Behind the Stone

A letter written by my great-uncle, Oliver McPherson: a Confederate soldier

John Wesley Houck, Company A, 26th NC Infantry

An Excerpt from the Hickory Daily Record entitled “Longview Woman, 97, Remembers Civil War”

Samuel Anders Dowless’ Family Bible

Jeremiah Aman (1825 – 1913) & Susan C. Petteway Aman (1838 – 1914)

The Recollections of Benjamin Franklin Hall, 1924

Ransom McIntyre

The Family’s Stories about Samuel Dowless, My Ancestor and a Confederate Soldier

A Document from the 1863 Sampson County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions: “An Order for Sale of slaves”

Fleming West and the N.C. 23rd, Co. I

Phase 1 is finished September 2020, and Phase 2 is in progress!

James Madison Ragland

John R. Richardson: The Anson County Soldier Who was Commemorated in Bronze

The History of Bennett College

John Wescott: The Last Surviving Confederate Veteran of Brunswick County

Jack Sherrod – “A Man of First Class Standing”

The War Experiences of Eliza Ann Triplet & William T. Land

Interview with Lucille Ellington McManaway

Captain James M. Young

Claiming Love on the Road

An Excerpt from “Tragic Story Illustrates Tumult after Civil War”

The Confederate Canteen

F. WASHINGTON DELLINGER: The Confederate Veteran Who Said He was at Ford’s Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was Shot

A Look at Education during the Reconstruction Years

The Story of Andrew Joshua Jackson: Born Enslaved, Husband, Father, Blacksmith, Freedman, Pastor, Education Advocate

Troy Kivett’s Story

Thomas Fonville: An Alamance County Soldier who Died at Gettysburg

Calvin McAdams: A Confederate Soldier from Alamance County

Mary Susan McCubbins

Willie Daniel: A Union Man from Wilson County

The Laughter Family Legacy of Service

Noah Wyrick’s Civil War Experience

Sheriff George Lee Phillips of Ashe County, North Carolina

MINNIE EVALINE COBB DELLINGER: The Story of the Young Wife of a Confederate Veteran

William N. Rose Jr.’s Civil War Story

A Tale of Two Brothers

Joseph and Delia Russell Youngblood’s War Stories

Samuel Anders Dowless’ Civil War Story

My Family History: Alexander Lowery (1831-1862)

A Simple Tombstone

A Confederate Chaplain: Adolphus W. Mangum (1834 – 1890)

Hiram Hamilton Hartley

A Special Order & Voucher Referring to the War Experiences of Dr. Robert Mijamin Patterson, A Confederate Assistant Surgeon

The War-Time History of my Great-Grandfather, Robert Mijamin Patterson, M.D.

Lt. Colonel James Land & The Deserter

From a Confederate Deserter to a Soldier on the Overland Trail: The War Experiences of Elias Day

Lt. Lal White’s Letter to his Brother, Murdock: October 8, 1863

Dr. Eleazor Aaron Pyatt (1832-1902): Ass’t. Surgeon, CSA

Henry Richard McFadyen’s “Amazing Grace”: The Reflections of a “living link between what now is and what has been”

My Great-Great-Grandparents, Caleb Smith and Elizabeth Braxton Smith, of Pitt County, North Carolina

Lt. Lal White’s Letter to his Brother, Murdock: November 22, 1863

June 8 2020 Statement by the Board of Directors

Josiah, James, and John Haywood: Union County Brothers Who Fought for the Confederacy

C.S.A. Captain John Tillinghast Taylor (1834—June 27, 1862)

An Orange County Family during the Civil War

Dicey Couch’s Petition to the Commissioners of Claims: The Orange County Woman Sought Compensation for a Horse, a Mule, and Bacon

Jane Dickinson Cowan DeRosset’s “Sherman’s Men Enter North Carolina”

Nathan Bradshaw: A Soldier of the Overland Trail

“[T]ell me what we poore soldiers wifes is to do”: Mrs. Susan Shearin, Mrs. L. Reid, Mrs. M. Neal, Mrs. C. Aycock, Mrs. Thomson, and Mrs. Elbeth Write a Letter to Gov. Vance

Thomas Warren “Capt. Plunk” Shearin

“[W]e can talk over the old times that tried mens [sic] souls”: A Letter from George Fitts to John L. Shearin

A Captain in the U.S. Army and a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army: Lewis Addison Armistead (1817-1863)

Doctor Parks Turner Beeman of Peachland, North Carolina

A Civil War Mystery Solved: Crowder Patience and Thomas Lawrence Jr. were Brothers from North Carolina

Granny Harriet

“The Fidelity of Lewis” by Mrs. Cornelia Worth French

Letter to Cousin Martha H. “Pattie” Aiken from Cornelia Murphey Worth

The Oral History Shared by my Great-Grandmother, Emily Jones Morrison

Dr. Francis Hamilton Conoly: A Man Who was Born in Robeson County, Fought for the Confederacy, then Relocated to South Carolina

Emeline Jamison Pigott: A Confederate Heroine

Major Robertson and George Clopton: Two of My Ancestors Who Died during the Civil War

A Tale of Two Brothers: Their Civil War Experiences

Jeffrey Stark [AKA Edward F. Small]: An Account by a Civil War Veteran

My Finch Ancestors Who Served in the Confederate Army

Three of Dicey Shearin’s Sons Fought for the Confederacy and Only One Survived

Pvt. Franklin Cauble and the Great Shohola, Pennsylvania, Prison Train Wreck, July 15, 1864

The Graves of Union Cavalrymen Henry L. Sennet, Calvin Simpson, David Woods, Reid Allcorn and Mathew L. Ross were Marked in Richmond County

Lt. Lal White’s Letter to his Father: October 7, 1863

Ruins of Winton, N.C.: A Sketch of the Scene after the Town was Burned by Union Troops

North Carolina Civil War & Reconstruction History Center – Phase 1

History Village Progress!

The Burning of Winton in 1862

Illustration of General Foster’s Troops Disembarking at Winton, N.C. Feb. 1862

Watson L. Daniel of Hertford County Votes against Secession

My four Civil War ancestors

Minnie McClenny Sutton’s Family Experiences during the Civil War

Lt. Lal White’s Letter Home: May 25, 1863

The Letters of Charles and George Dellinger, Lincoln County Brothers Who Were Stationed in Wilmington and Missing Home

Polk County, N.C. during the Civil War: The Story of Charity Holbert & Her Husbands

Willis Richardson: The Story of an African American Playwright

Lt. Lal White’s Letter Home: July 19, 1863

What a Good Birthday Party Can Do: The Birth of a ‘Little General’ Unites Both Sides in Celebration

Ann Eliza Brown White (1838 – 1927)

Lt. Lal White’s Letter Home: August 20, 1863

From Enslaved to Landowner: The Story of James H. Woodard