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Major (given name) Franklin Hull was born in Lincoln County but in 1860 was a schoolteacher and resided in neighboring Catawba County with his wife, one-year old daughter and a single slave. His surviving photograph depicts him in an elaborate…

Private John Young Shitle
Company I, 48th Regiment N.C. Troops

John Young Shitle, a thirty-two-year-old farmer from Cleveland County, was conscripted on August 16, 1862, and assigned to Company I, 48th Regiment N.C. Troops, a Union County…

Private James D. Ellington farmed with his parents and ten siblings in Warren County, and enlisted on February 12, 1862, in the new command that became Company C, 46th Regiment N. C. Troops. The company mustered in at Raleigh on the following April…

When the men of the 4th Regiment N.C. State Troops filed into Bloody Lane on the morning of September 17, 1862, taking position between the 14th North Carolina on their left and 30th North Carolina on their right, they numbered no more than 150 men,…

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…

The campaigns of 1862, from Shiloh through Second Manassas, resulted in bloodbaths unequaled in American history, but it was the Battle of Sharpsburg,
more than any other, that indelibly impressed the cost of war upon Americans, both North and…

Charles Courtenay Tew (born October 17, 1827), a native of Charleston, South Carolina, was an 1846 graduate of the South Carolina Military Academy (the Citadel) and served as a professor at that institution for eleven years. In 1858 he helped…