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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…

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…

Cary Whitaker, a farmer and the county attorney for Halifax County, lived near Enfield and was appointed third lieutenant of the “Enfield Blues” (subsequently Company I, 1st Regiment N.C. Volunteers) on April 19, 1861. The “Blues” were present at the…

Philip Jefferson Johnson farmed with his parents, an elder brother, James Theodore Johnson, and six other siblings in Burke County. The family was well-to-do and owned nine slaves. Philip enlisted at Morganton on April 25, 1861, in a six-month…

In the spring of 1861 Egbert A. Ross of Mecklenburg County (born September 9, 1842) was a student at Hillsborough Military Academy. However, he returned to Charlotte and joined a volunteer militia company called the “Charlotte Grays.” All the men…

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…