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Adam Miller Roberts (born ca. 1839) resided in Gaston County and enlisted at Dallas as a sergeant in the “King’s Mountain Grays” (subsequently Company M, 16th Regiment N.C. Troops) on May 1, 1861. Roberts was elected second lieutenant on July 4,…

Albert Newton Leatherwood lived with his parents, prosperous farmers, in the Shooting Creek District of Clay County. On November 1, 1861, he enlisted in a new company organized at Hayesville and was elected second lieutenant on November 6. The…

Bartlett Yancey Martin resided with his wife and infant son on a farm in the “South East District” of Ashe County. His farm and personal property were each valued at $300.

Martin was one of ninety-seven men and boys who enlisted for twelve months…

Charles Betts Cook, a twenty-six-year-old Cumberland County resident, enlisted in the “Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry on April 17, 1861. He was promoted to second lieutenant on May 21, eight days after the company joined the 1st Regiment…

[Note: This isn’t the greatest image, but Pleasant’s story is very interesting. I am still trying to find out his relationship to Abner D. Peace (see previous image posted); apparently it wasn’t particularly close. I also hope to find some of…

Quentin Derward Busbee of Wake County served as a naval officer during the Mexican War, apparently receiving his commission on April 27, 1846. He was purser on the U.S.S. Germantown, a sloop-of-war built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard and commissioned…

When the “Catawba Rifles,” subsequently Company A, 12th Regiment N.C. Troops (2nd Regiment N.C. Volunteers), elected officers on May 12, 1861, the men chose Uriah Franklin Sherrill as first lieutenant. Sherrill was a merchant but had previously been…

John Wall Norwood (born ca. 1844) resided with his widowed mother and four siblings in Haywood County. The family owned substantial real property and nine slaves. John volunteered on May 31, 1861, for service in the “Haywood Invincibles,”…

Abner Burgess Hayes (born October 21, 1839) farmed with his parents and eight siblings in the Summers District, Caldwell County. The family was prosperous and owned one slave.

Abner enlisted at Lenoir on July 15, 1861, in the “Hibriten Guards,”…

This image of Second Lieutenant Bryan Trippe Bonner, Company I (the “Pamlico Rifles”), 4th Regiment N.C. State Troops, is a painting, based upon an original ambrotype or ferrotype. The artist tried to remain faithful to the painting’s details, so…