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Although born in South Carolina, Samuel Harrison Hilton moved with his family at the tender age of one into the Old North State. His father – Aurelius Hilton – was a Baptist minister, and settled into Union County, NC, in 1845, and later to…

In 1861, Nathaniel Greene Rich resided with his wife and four small children on a modest farm in Davie County, North Carolina, circumstances that doubtless made him reluctant to join the early rush of volunteers. However, conditions were much…

(I have looked for North Carolina images for nearly thirty years. During that time, I have viewed only four equestrian photographs, two of which depicted antebellum militiamen who subsequently became Confederates.)

John Woods Woodfin, one of the…

Elisha Hamilton Miller (known to his family as “Hamp”) lived in Caldwell County, and, on July 1, 1862, enlisted in a cavalry company known as the “Davis Dragoons,” recruited primarily in adjacent Burke County.

The “Dragoons” had organized in…

The only cavalry company from Orange County organized at Hillsborough in September 1861 and was subsequently assigned to the 2nd Regiment N.C. Cavalry (19th Regiment N.C. Troops) as Company K. Apparently, the company’s original uniform coat was the…

Daniel Albright belonged to a family of Alamance County gunsmiths and was employed for most of the war by the firm of Clapp, Gates & Company, located at Cedar Hill Foundry on the Alamance River in eastern Guilford County. Albright worked as a barrel…

The 13th Regiment Tennessee Cavalry organized near Knoxville, Tennessee, in October-November 1863. The men were mainly recruited from Carter and Johnson counties in northeastern Tennessee, probably the most intensely Unionist area in any of the…