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Story Collection
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
