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 Lady

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

The Proffit Brothers of Wilkes County, North Carolina

Woodrow Wilson at Davidson College

Jackson County’s John B. Queen is Memorialized by his Friend, Elbert Brown

Robert H. Jordan: Born and Raised in Hertford County, Made a Home in Tennessee, and Served in the Union Army

Catherine Sweet Babington: The Only Woman Master Mason

Finding Brothers William and Levi Monroe

Long Way Home

My Civil War Great-Great-Uncle James D. Ellington

The Winton-Triangle: A Mixed-Race Community’s Civil War

The Story of Lt. William Beavans, Company D, 43rd Regiment CSA

An Excerpt from Elliot Daingerfield’s Autobiography

Jeff Sanders, A Free Black Man Who Served for the Confederacy During the Civil War

Samuel Spake & Harriet Dellinger Spake: “We are still in the land of the living and trying to do the best we can.”

Wilmington’s Confederate General William MacRae

The Messer boys survive the war

The Cleveland County “Merchant Tailor”: Anonymous W. Quinn’s Civil War Experiences

The Freedmen’s Bureau Record and Clara Lennon Ashley

The History of First Baptist Church in Fairmont, NC: An Introduction with Slaves Leading the Way

Solomon Keyes’ life during and after the Civil War

A Recollection of a Genealogical Rediscovery from the Civil War Sesquicentennial

More Civil War Soldiers

“[H]e will come back to dixey again”: A Letter of Reassurance from a Soldier to his Sister

“[M]y Dear I dont expect to git home and if I dont, try and do the best you can”: Letters written by Jacob L. Hartsoe

Visiting Ashe County Relatives in 1862: An Excerpt from Francis Marion Wilcox’s Journal

Love in the midst of war

Joel Elmore (Company A, 40th NC Troops) and the Ft. Fisher shark

“we donte get husking Suppers here”: Philip S. Baity’s Letter to his Wife, Mary Jane

The Obituary of Sergeant Clark Allen

A. W. and Delilah Hughes Bryant

The Story of William B. Brown: A Confederate Soldier & a Union Soldier, including Transcriptions of a Letter to Margaret, His Wife

Hamilton Chamberlain Jones, Jr.: He Made a Difference

Wounded, Taken Prisoner, and Survived: William J. Nott’s Story

The Nott Family in Fayetteville

That Story and Dear John

Public Hearings and Meetings

Prominent African American Scholars and Academics Advising the History Center

Questions and Answers

The Vause Family in Lenoir County during the Civil War and Reconstruction

Researching my family of soldiers at the National Archives and Records Administration

“Take Charge of My Farm” & “I Want [the Children] Raised Right”: Levi McCasin’s Letters to his Family

Lawrence O’Bryan Branch

My Father was Raised by His Grandmother, who had been Enslaved: The Story of Amanda B. Powell

Tom Baggett’s life after the War

The Retelling of an Oral Tradition: Tom Baggett & the Grey Patch!

James Clontz: A Union County Man Who Fought for the Confederacy

George MacKinnon “Mack” Wilson

John Newton Wilson, Sr.

Forefathers who Fought and a Foremother’s Opinion

William Gaston Lewis: He Made a Difference

Judy Ellington Stainback’s Civil War Great-Great Uncle, Byrd Ellington

Ten Days of Hell: Sherman’s Army in North Carolina

David Jesse Farthing

James King Farthing

The Old Home Place of Ephraim D. Setser

Fessenden’s Radio Experiments

Zerald Crowder: A Stone Cutter and Confederate Soldier

Anne “Annie” Carter Lee (1839-1862)

The Daguerrotype

Elizabeth G. Nott: A Woman of Fayetteville, NC

A Letter to the Editor: Covington Describes the State of his Plantations after Sherman’s Men Pass Through

Civil War Story of Rutha and Skilton Dennis

My Great-Great-Grandfather Thomas McDaniel

Person County Farmer

A Letter from Thomas McDaniel

Julia Telfair Small’s “A Leaf from the Old South”

A Confederate Soldier: William M. Stroup

Former NC Governor Jim Hunt on WIDU

NCCWRHC receives $6.5 million painting…

Dark Days of the War

Solomon Luther Stroup: A Confederate Deserter Who Relocated to Arkansas

Four Brothers Fighting in the Civil War: Wesley C. Stroup, Robert B. Stroup, Jesse Isaac Stroup Jr, and William M. Stroup

Hiram Hamilton Hartley’s Civil War Experiences

Memories of the Civil War

Samuel Porter, James Haywood Porter, and Margaret Jean Butler Porter: Their Stories of Loss, Hardship, and Death

Esther Bullard’s Horse: A Civil War Mystery

The Civil War comes to Sampson County

From the family of Confederate soldier Joseph Boon Herring

Surviving Sherman

My Civil War Ancestors

Large wooden canteen brought home by a New York Civil War veteran

Kenneth Thomas Morgan: My Great-Great-Grandfather’s Civil War Experiences

Levi, Samuel, and Samuel Stroup: A Father, a Son, and a Nephew Who All Fought for the Confederacy

Silas M. Stroup of Buncombe County

Lt. Franklin Murphy’s North Carolina Civil War Experiences

Randy Taylor

Joshua Winkler: A Farmer, a Blacksmith, and a Mill Operator of Watauga County

Evander N. Robeson and the Bladen Guards

John Ward, a carpenter from Watauga County

African American men in Anson County NC who received a pension for their service in the Civil War

Jonas & Rosa Griffin: A Civil War Veteran Wounded, A Widow Scorned

The Griffin Legacy of Martin County, NC: Jonas Griffin, A Civil War Veteran

“Reconstruction of Our County”

Civil War Grandfather

The Last Battleground: The Civil War Comes to North Carolina.

William Burton “Burt” Joyner

Robert M. Stroup and Peter Lafayette Stroup: Brothers Who Died at Point Lookout

Rufus Lott, Nancy, and James Zebulon Stroup: A Family Affected by War

Philip R. Stroup, 1831-1862

Moses Stroup, Jr.: a POW who survived being captured three times

Major General William Dorsey Pender: The Fighting Tarheel from Tarboro

William Cicero and Rebecca Miller Taylor’s Family Bible

Ben Casey, 3rd NC Heavy Artillery

Sherman’s Cavalry

A soldier froze in a swamp, making his way home

A Branch from the Foushee Family Tree

December 2018 Newsletter

Moses S. Stroup, 1839-1910

“I think they died fighting for a just cause”: Joseph Goldinger’s Letters to His Parents

Lyman Hannaford’s Letters Home: “Things are getting quieted down again in the Old North State”

Original Letter from Andrew J. Dooling to his mother Mary H Dooling

Daniel Nazareth was Daniel Huff, A Formerly Enslaved Man Who Fought for the Union

Benjamin Franklin Ringgold

Brothers Levin J. and Eugene Stroupe: Both fought, but only one survived the War

Captured on April 8, 1865: John Marshall Stroup

From Oxfordshire to North Carolina, a journey of discovery

Richmond County, NC during the Civil War

James Daniel Moore, Company F 26th NC : The First Day At Gettysburg

Winnie Aldridge Suggs: Personal Experience of the Civil War

John E. Stroup: A Soldier at 16

Thomas Wooten Hill

Parrot Nathan Hill

Joshua Mewborn, the Fireside Preacher

Mary Edmundson Aldridge: A Woman of Courage

John Henry Suggs played for Stonewall Jackson

Lockett Ringold (1828-1862)

James Ringgold (1844-1914)

John Herring Wetherington (1833-1910)

African American Civil War Soldiers born in Richmond County NC but lived their remaining years in Anson County NC

The Snow Brothers

Alexander Cary McAlister & Adelaide Worth McAlister

Sylvanus David Davis & Jane Transou Davis