Archibald Daniel Council farmed in the North West District of Brunswick County but he enlisted on May 20, 1861, in the “Bladen Guards,” from adjacent Bladen County.
The “Guards” had organized at Elizabethtown on April 26 and by June were at…
Major General A. P. Hill’s Division, which included two North Carolina brigades, marched at the rear of Stonewall Jackson’s flanking column at Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863. Much of Hill’s Division, including Brigadier General James H. Lane’s Tar…