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The volunteer militia company known as the “Roanoke Minute Men” organized at Littleton, Halifax County, in December 1860. The winter was spent drilling and acquiring locally made uniforms, and on March 30, sixty-one men formally enlisted, the…

In January or February 1847, John Turner Hambrick of Caswell County volunteered for service with Company F, 1st Regiment N.C. Volunteers. The regiment mustered at Smithville (present-day Southport), Brunswick County, and, vowing to honor their flag…

Charles Betts Cook, a twenty-six-year-old Cumberland County resident, enlisted in the “Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry on April 17, 1861. He was promoted to second lieutenant on May 21, eight days after the company joined the 1st Regiment…

Jarrett Norfleet Harrell , a merchant of Murfreesboro,Hertford County, was appointed captain of the “Hertford Grays,” subsequently Company F, 1st Regiment N.C. State Troops, in May 1861. He was wounded in the breast at the Battle of Chancellorsville…

Newell Wesley Sapp boarded with a merchant (who may have been his employer) in the Deep River District of Forsyth and in 1860 declared that his occupation was “clerk.” On May 24, 1861, he enlisted as private in a company known as the “Forsyth Grays,”…

Richard Heath, by occupation a farm laborer, resided with his mother and seven siblings in the Bull Head District, Greene County. He enlisted at Goldsboro on May 13, 1862, in Company A (the “Greene County Riflemen”), 3rd Regiment N.C. State Troops.…

Ninety-eight men and boys volunteered in April-May 1861 at Snow Hill in a company known as the “Greene County Riflemen,” subsequently Company A, 3rd Regiment N.C. State Troops. James Henry Albritton, by occupation a clerk, enlisted on April 23 and…

David Williams (born January 6, 1821) farmed with his wife and five small children in the Washington (South) District of New Hanover County in the Holly Shelter community (present-day Pender County). He was appointed captain of a local company, the…

This image of Second Lieutenant Bryan Trippe Bonner, Company I (the “Pamlico Rifles”), 4th Regiment N.C. State Troops, is a painting, based upon an original ambrotype or ferrotype. The artist tried to remain faithful to the painting’s details, so…

Edward Stanley Marsh farmed with his elder brother, William T. Marsh, in the South Creek district of Beaufort County. The brothers were well-to-do, with real property valued at $6000. and they owned more than twenty slaves. When the “Pamlico Rifles”…