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Unidentified North Carolina soldier, shown in the 1861 regulation jacket. Purchased from a Charlotte, NC, estate in the 1980s.

Unidentified North Carolina soldier holding a bouquet.

A chair finial is visible behind the left shoulder of this unidentified image, indicating that the ambrotype was made in the studio of the photographer Esley Hunt of Raleigh. For additional…

Louis Bryson Flack (born 1838) resided with his parents and three siblings in the Cathey’s Creek District of Rutherford County. His father was a blacksmith, but Flack’s occupation is unknown.

He enlisted on May 12, 1862, in a local company known…

Francis Marion Long (born ca. 1839) lived in the Cane Creek District of Rutherford County and enlisted at Rutherfordton on March 24, 1862, in a company known as the “Rutherford Farmers.” The “Farmers” were soon on their way to Camp Mangum, near…

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:…

Leander Armsur Coe, by occupation a “house carpenter,” was born in Surry County but in 1860 resided with his wife and two small children in the Murphy District of Cherokee County. He was conscripted in Jackson County on April 5, 1863, in Company B…

Barney Lane, a carpenter by trade, lived in the “District East of Neuse River” in Johnston County. (His first name also appears as “Barna” and “Barnaba.”) On May 31, 1861, he was appointed captain of the “Lone Star Boys,” a company recruited in the…