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Charles Law Torrence
August 11, 1844 - August 26, 1910

Company F, Mecklenburg Rangers
5th North Carolina Cavalry (63rd NC State Troops)


When North Carolina seceded from the Union in May of 1861, Charles Law Torrence was but sixteen years…

Although born in South Carolina, Samuel Harrison Hilton moved with his family at the tender age of one into the Old North State. His father – Aurelius Hilton – was a Baptist minister, and settled into Union County, NC, in 1845, and later to…

At the conclusion of the Chancellorsville campaign in spring of 1863, despite a Confederate victory, the 4th North Carolina State Troops was a shadow of its former self. The 4th brought 327 officers and enlisted men into action on May 1. Just days…

Alleghany County’s first Confederate company, known as the “Alleghany True Blues,” enlisted for twelve months service on May 27, 1861, and numbered 106 men and boys. The “Record of Events” from the July 15-August 31 muster roll recounts the company’s…

Unveiling of the North Carolina Monument at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, April 10, 1905

In 1858 a twenty-one-year-old Virginian named Claudius Baker Denson moved to Duplin County and founded a military school known as the Franklin Military Institute. Denson served as commandant of cadets and as a faculty member at the school until April…

This image of a North Carolina lieutenant was acquired by the N.C. Office of Archives and History in 1953, apparently without identification.

The original, presumably an ambrotype, was made in the studio of the noted Richmond photographer,…

Unidentified Tarheel soldier in the regulation 1861 style coat with black shoulder cloth.

Unidentified North Carolina soldier, shown in the 1861 regulation jacket. Purchased from a Charlotte, NC, estate in the 1980s.

1/6th plate ambrotype. Soldier is wearing a six button NC Depot jacket, and while the photographer is unknown, this is a setting frequently seen in NC images.

Found at an estate sale in Concord, North Carolina.