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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…

John Kerr Connally was a native of Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee, and as a young man received an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy. He did not graduate, however, and in 1861 lived in the Little Yadkin District, of Yadkin County. Connally…

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…