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Quentin Derward Busbee of Wake County served as a naval officer during the Mexican War, apparently receiving his commission on April 27, 1846. He was purser on the U.S.S. Germantown, a sloop-of-war built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard and commissioned…

Lucius Weaver Gash and his parents were prosperous farmers of the Swannanoa area of Buncombe County. He enlisted at Asheville on May 17, 1861, in the company raised by former U.S. Congressman Zebulon Baird Vance, known as the “Rough and Ready…

The volunteer militia company known as the “Roanoke Minute Men” organized at Littleton, Halifax County, in December 1860. The winter was spent drilling and acquiring locally made uniforms, and on March 30, sixty-one men formally enlisted, the…