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Daniel Albright belonged to a family of Alamance County gunsmiths and was employed for most of the war by the firm of Clapp, Gates & Company, located at Cedar Hill Foundry on the Alamance River in eastern Guilford County. Albright worked as a barrel…

"Died on the field of honor."

Cadet William Hugh McDowell, also known as the "Ghost Cadet" from the novel of the same name.

Born December 31, 1846 in Iredell County, North Carolina. Entered the Virginia Military Institute on August 22, 1863,…

On May 1, 1863, most Confederate troops in the vicinity of Fredericksburg received orders to March toward Chancellorsville, several miles to the west. Left behind to defend the right flank of the Army of Northern Virginia were a Mississippi brigade…

The 13th Regiment Tennessee Cavalry organized near Knoxville, Tennessee, in October-November 1863. The men were mainly recruited from Carter and Johnson counties in northeastern Tennessee, probably the most intensely Unionist area in any of the…

A scattering of members of the 1st Regiment N.C. Infantry (U.S.) came from other states and the interior of North Carolina, but the vast majority of the men were residents of the counties that surround the Albemarle Sound, the most pro-Union area of…

In April 1863, an over-sized heavy artillery company from Craven County, commanded by Captain John N. Whitford, was converted to infantry and split into two companies. The new organization, formally the 1st Battalion N.C. Local Defense Troops, was…

Henry Allen Turpin enlisted at Webster with his brother James in Company A (the “Jackson Volunteers”), 16th Regiment N.C. Troops, on April 27, 1861. Henry mustered into service as a corporal, but was subsequently reduced to ranks. With the exception…

Andrew Jackson Daniel of Wayne County enlisted at Goldsboro on May 16, 1862, in a company known as the “Trio Guards,” subsequently Company F, 61st Regiment N.C. Troops. (The company was raised in Wilson, Greene, and Pitt Counties during March-May,…

In January-February 1862 a volunteer heavy artillery company known as the “Robinson Artillery” organized in Craven County and was mustered into service on March 5. The new company was attached to the 40th Regiment N.C. Troops (3rd Regiment N.C.…

On April 18, 1861, the “Buncombe Rifles” became Buncombe County’s first company to leave for war, departing Asheville less than a week after the firing on Fort Sumter. The “Rifles” had organized in December 1859 following John Brown’s raid on the…