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Alleghany County’s first Confederate company, known as the “Alleghany True Blues,” enlisted for twelve months service on May 27, 1861, and numbered 106 men and boys. The “Record of Events” from the July 15-August 31 muster roll recounts the company’s…

The Powell brothers of Caswell County John H. and James C. (below) served in Company G (the “Caswell Rifles”), 22nd Regiment N.C. Troops. John (born April 2, 1842) enlisted at Raleigh on July 12, 1861. No muster rolls for Company G survive from the…

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…

William T. R. Abernathy (born ca. 1839) lived in the John’s River District of Caldwell County, and enlisted at Lenoir on April 30, 1861, in that county’s first company, the “Caldwell Rough and Ready Boys,” subsequently Company A, 22nd Regiment N.C.…

This ambrotype of John Pickens Barlow of Caldwell County was made in the photography studio of Esley Hunt of Raleigh, as attested by the presence of distinct chair finials visible behind Barlow’s shoulders. At some time Barlow (or a family member)…