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Philip Jefferson Johnson farmed with his parents, an elder brother, James Theodore Johnson, and six other siblings in Burke County. The family was well-to-do and owned nine slaves. Philip enlisted at Morganton on April 25, 1861, in a six-month…

The first company raised in Burke County was the “Burke Rifles,” which served six months in 1861 as Company G of the 1st Regiment N.C. Volunteers. In December 1861 a cadre of about twenty-five veterans of the “Rifles” began organizing a new company,…

Newton Atlas Branch (born July 14, 1833) enlisted for three years or the duration of the war on May 28, 1861, in Company D, 6th Regiment N.C. State Troops. Although the company organized at Charlotte, the men were mainly from Burke County, including…