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Edward Gale Butler was born in Virginia and resided at Oxford, Granville County, where he was “a student of divinity.” On April 26, 1861, nearly a month before North Carolina seceded, Edward enlisted as a private in the “Townsville Guards,”…

Eli Davidson Deal farmed with his parents in Alexander County, but enlisted at Newton in neighboring Catawba County on April 1, 1862. The company he chose was the first raised in Catawba County, nearly a year earlier, the “Catawba Rifles,” now…

When the “Catawba Rifles,” subsequently Company A, 12th Regiment N.C. Troops (2nd Regiment N.C. Volunteers), elected officers on May 12, 1861, the men chose Uriah Franklin Sherrill as first lieutenant. Sherrill was a merchant but had previously been…