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…
William Jenkins resided with his mother and three siblings on a farm in District 11, Northampton County. The family was prosperous and owned five slaves. William’s older brother, Patrick H. Jenkins, volunteered in 1861 in Company F (the “Hertford…