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Jonas Elias Pope & Family
Researched and written by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown Jonas Elias Pope was born on February 1, 1827, at Rich Square in Northampton County, NC. His father was Elias Pope, a free person of color with a mixed-race heritage who owned land and supported a sizable...
Conscripted in the Confederate Army: George W. Walters
Researched and written by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown George W. Walters was a farmer who lived in Chatham County, North Carolina, when the war started. In 1862, thirty-three-year-old Walters was conscripted into the Confederate army as a private. He was...
Edward and Sallie Evans
Submitted by Edwina Clarkson; written by Ruth Gillis; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter & Kobe M. Brown Copies of photographs courtesy of Edwina Clarkson and taken by Dorien Caldwell Edward and Sallie Evans are remembered in Fayetteville, N.C. as educators,...
![“[S]ince we have been marching I think that I have Marched over 1000 miles”: Oliver White’s Oct. 13, 1862 Letter to His Brother, Murdock White](https://nccivilwarcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Since-we-have-been-marching-I-think-that_Thumbanil-400x250.png)
“[S]ince we have been marching I think that I have Marched over 1000 miles”: Oliver White’s Oct. 13, 1862 Letter to His Brother, Murdock White
Submitted by Sandra White Hinton: Letter Transcribed by Sandra White Hinton and Cheri Todd Molter; Content notes written by Cheri Todd Molter Original Transcription Northern Virginia Oct. 13, 1862 M. White Bro. it has been some time since I wrote to you, or heard from...
“Getting ready for War”: A Letter Written by Josephine B. Worth
Submitted by Demetrius Haddock; Transcribed by Cheri Todd Molter The letter pictured was written by Mrs. Josephine Bryan Worth, who, according to her obituary (Josephine_Bryan_Worth_s_Obituary_1917), was the daughter of Josiah and Sarah Hodges Bryan of Fayetteville,...
“Going home to die no more”: The Transcription of a Letter that Joseph Huneycutt Wrote to His Family Before Being Shot for Desertion, March 1865
According to an article written by Elizabeth Cook in 2011, Emma Green[e] of East Spencer had shared a letter that was written in March 1865 by a Stanly County man named Joseph Huneycutt, who was anticipating his execution for desertion with the Salisbury Post. In that...
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