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Pro-secession sentiment was weak in many North Carolina mountain counties, especially Caldwell. In the first secession convention election, February 28, 1861, Caldwell County rejected the proposition by a 78 percent vote, one of the highest margins…

The case containing this sixth-plate ambrotype of William Franklin Vogler is inscribed “Raleigh N C May 1861.” Although Vogler may have visited Raleigh in May, on the twenty-second of that month he enlisted at Salem in the “Forsyth Rifles,”…

John W. Miller (born April 19, 1842) resided with his parents and four siblings in the town of Salem, Forsyth County. His father listed no occupation in the 1860 census, but nevertheless owned eight slaves, two slave dwellings and substantial other…