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This image came from an estate sale about thirty years ago. The surname may be Vogler. The image is notable for the point-up single chevron on the right sleeve.

Unidentified Confederate soldier from Rowan County, North Carolina

This photograph of an unidentified soldier in a militia-style uniform was published in 1972 on page 18 of William Albaugh’s book, More Confederate Faces. The caption accompanying the image reads “Fig. 39 A handsome Southern Volunteer Officer from…

Unidentified North Carolina soldier holding a bouquet.

A chair finial is visible behind the left shoulder of this unidentified image, indicating that the ambrotype was made in the studio of the photographer Esley Hunt of Raleigh. For additional…

Unidentified North Carolina soldier, possibly from Davidson County.

The soldier is carrying a long rifle with an octagon barrel. The shape of the tang suggests that the gun was made in the Salem, Forsyth County, area. In the early part of the war…

Alfred F. Goodman
1838 – 1916
Company C, 4th North Carolina State Troops

A native of Iredell County, twenty-three year old Alfred F. Goodman enlisted at Statesville in Company C, 4th North Carolina State Troops on June 7, 1861. Goodman was…

In 1861, Nathaniel Greene Rich resided with his wife and four small children on a modest farm in Davie County, North Carolina, circumstances that doubtless made him reluctant to join the early rush of volunteers. However, conditions were much…

(I have looked for North Carolina images for nearly thirty years. During that time, I have viewed only four equestrian photographs, two of which depicted antebellum militiamen who subsequently became Confederates.)

John Woods Woodfin, one of the…

Elisha Hamilton Miller (known to his family as “Hamp”) lived in Caldwell County, and, on July 1, 1862, enlisted in a cavalry company known as the “Davis Dragoons,” recruited primarily in adjacent Burke County.

The “Dragoons” had organized in…

The only cavalry company from Orange County organized at Hillsborough in September 1861 and was subsequently assigned to the 2nd Regiment N.C. Cavalry (19th Regiment N.C. Troops) as Company K. Apparently, the company’s original uniform coat was the…