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The volunteer militia company known as the “Roanoke Minute Men” organized at Littleton, Halifax County, in December 1860. The winter was spent drilling and acquiring locally made uniforms, and on March 30, sixty-one men formally enlisted, the…

In January or February 1847, John Turner Hambrick of Caswell County volunteered for service with Company F, 1st Regiment N.C. Volunteers. The regiment mustered at Smithville (present-day Southport), Brunswick County, and, vowing to honor their flag…

Jechonias P. Willis (left), a twenty-two-year-old clerk, and Thomas Lindsay (right), residents of Carteret County, enlisted on May 25 and July 15, respectively, in a three-years company known as the “Topsail Rifles.” The “Rifles” mustered into…

In April 1861 a light artillery battery known as the “Ellis Light Artillery” or the “Ellis Flying Artillery” organized at Raleigh. (The company named itself for North Carolina’s governor, John Willis Ellis.) One of its first acts was to elect as…

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…

Jarrett Norfleet Harrell , a merchant of Murfreesboro,Hertford County, was appointed captain of the “Hertford Grays,” subsequently Company F, 1st Regiment N.C. State Troops, in May 1861. He was wounded in the breast at the Battle of Chancellorsville…

Newell Wesley Sapp boarded with a merchant (who may have been his employer) in the Deep River District of Forsyth and in 1860 declared that his occupation was “clerk.” On May 24, 1861, he enlisted as private in a company known as the “Forsyth Grays,”…

Charles Courtenay Tew (born October 17, 1827), a native of Charleston, South Carolina, was an 1846 graduate of the South Carolina Military Academy (the Citadel) and served as a professor at that institution for eleven years. In 1858 he helped…

The campaigns of 1862, from Shiloh through Second Manassas, resulted in bloodbaths unequaled in American history, but it was the Battle of Sharpsburg,
more than any other, that indelibly impressed the cost of war upon Americans, both North and…

Richard Heath, by occupation a farm laborer, resided with his mother and seven siblings in the Bull Head District, Greene County. He enlisted at Goldsboro on May 13, 1862, in Company A (the “Greene County Riflemen”), 3rd Regiment N.C. State Troops.…