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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…