There’s No Refuge in Wartime

by | Mar 23, 2015 | Brunswick, Confederate affiliation

Lawrence L. Lancaster moved from Craven County to the Lockwood Folly region of Brunswick County, where he enlisted as a private with Company K, 36th Regiment North Carolina State Troops. Lawrence was captured defending Fort Fisher on January 15, 1865. While confined at Point Lookout, Md., he died of typhoid fever and pneumonia on June 5, 1865.

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