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Unidentified Confederate soldier from Rowan County, North Carolina

Ruffin Thomas Barnes, a farmer who owned four slaves, lived with his wife and two small children in Black Creek, Wilson County. He enlisted in a volunteer company that was raised in January-February 1862 and was appointed third lieutenant when the…

Augustus McMillian Bryant, a nineteen-year-old farm laborer, was one of seventy men who enlisted between August 1-7, 1861, in a company from Northampton County that was assigned to the 2nd Regiment N.C. Volunteers as Company O. Confederate policy…

Robert Jones of Granville County was conscripted into service and enlisted at Oxford on July 8, 1862, in Company I (the “Granville Stars”), 23rd Regiment N.C. Troops. On the following September 6 he entered a hospital at Danville, Virginia, suffering…