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According to the 1860 Federal census only 1005 white men of military age (15 to 49) resided in Gates County. Nevertheless, by early June 1861 the county had provided two companies (the “Gates Guards” and the “Gates Minute Men”), numbering more than…

James Matchett Taylor was born in 1839 in Pasquotank County, North Carolina, the son of James Taylor and Elizabeth Carver Taylor. While from a farming family of modest means, his father was a recent Irish immigrant who saw the value in education.…