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During the advance of Ramseur’s Brigade at the Battle of Chancellorsville on the morning of May 3,1863, General Ramseur encountered a battery commanded by Major William J. Pegram of Virginia. The major applied for infantry support for his battery,…

William Thompson Blanton (born ca. 1840) resided in South Carolina, but his parents lived in Cleveland County and he enlisted in the “Cleveland Regulators” on August 22, 1861. Eight other Blantons were members of the same company, subsequently…

The “South Fork Farmers,” named for a local tributary of the Catawba River, organized at Newton on August 13, 1861. The new company moved to Camp Fisher, near High Point, and on September 21 became Company C, 28th Regiment N.C. Troops.

One of the…

The lopsidedness of the Confederate victory at Fredericksburg, and the massive casualties inflicted upon the Army of the Potomac, might lead to the presumption that the Confederate side emerged relatively unscathed. Such was not the case, however,…

As a young man Thomas Lafayette Lowe traveled from his native Catawba County to Charlotte, where he found employment as a clerk in the firm of Williams & Co. While there he also acquired enough education to return to Catawba County and establish…

The “Marlboro Guards” organized in Pitt County in April 1861, and on May 18 were ordered to New Bern, where, with several other companies, they drilled at a place called Camp Gatlin. The “Guards” were initially members of a unit known as the 9th…

Although the single star on the collar might suggest that the subject of this image was a Confederate major, stars were also used as decorative devices among some volunteer militia companies. Needham Lafayette Whitley (May 18, 1838-January 29, 1886)…

Company F (the “Hibriten Guards”), 26th Regiment N.C. Troops achieved a terrible fame at the Battle of Gettysburg. During the fight against the Iron Brigade on McPherson’s Ridge on July 1, every member of the company present was shot down:…

John Burton Holloway and his wife Victoria, recently married, farmed in the Patterson District of Caldwell County. On July 15, 1861, Holloway enlisted at Lenoir in the company known as the “Hibriten Guards,” subsequently Company F, 26th Regiment N.C.…

Abner Burgess Hayes (born October 21, 1839) farmed with his parents and eight siblings in the Summers District, Caldwell County. The family was prosperous and owned one slave.

Abner enlisted at Lenoir on July 15, 1861, in the “Hibriten Guards,”…