Emsley Monroe Fogleman was born to William Condon Fogleman and Barbara Suitz on 31 January 1842 in Guilford County, North Carolina. He enlisted with the 45th North Carolina Company but was transferred to the 53rd North Carolina Company F on March 19, 1862. He served well during the war never leaving his post or failing …
Category Archives: North Carolina
Asa Washington Sams
Asa Washington Sams was born in April 1838, in Little Ivy Creek, Madison County, NC. He died on March 29, 1911, in Telluride, San Miguel County, CO and is buried in Lone Tee Cemetery, Telluride, CO. He volunteered to join the Confederate cause by enlisting on May 10th, 1862, at Marshall NC, at the age …
Josiah Washington Fulton
Josiah Washington “Fult” Fulton served in the NC 21st Infantry Division and also spent time as a POW at Point Lookout, MD. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25512769/josiah-washington-fulton
Theodore A. P. White
Private enlisted in Co. K, 43rd North Carolina Infantry on 25 Feb 1862 at the age of 16. He was wounded in the left leg on 2 Jul 1863. I’m about 98% sure that he was wounded in the field across from the present-day hospital on Long Lane in Gettysburg, PA. Pvt. White was evacuated …
Abram Gainey
Military Record May 7, 1862 – Enlisted at Cumberland County, NC 54th North Carolina Regiment, Company C Rank: Private Prior to July 1, 1862 – Promoted to Corporal July – December, 1862 – Promoted to 1st Sergeant November 7, 1863 – Captured at Rappahannock Station, VA November 11, 1863 – Confined at Point Lookout, MD …
Jeremiah Brown
Jeremiah and his brother John served in Company A (known as the Northampton Guards) of the 15th North Carolina Regiment. The other brother, Joshua Benjamin, served in Company O of the 32nd North Carolina Regiment. The fifth Regiment of North Carolina Infantry (Volunteers) was organized in June of 1861 with twelve companies, A to M. …
David Lemuel Warren Allen
Born in Georgia, but lived in North Carolina… Fought as part of Thomas Legion of Cherokee and Highlanders, the last unit east of the Mississippi River to surrender. Wounded twice, he was released to go home for recuperation, and returned to his unit both times. He served through the end of the war, and signed …
Robert Bingham
“Robert Bingham, headmaster of Bingham School and educational advocate, was born in Hillsborough, the fourth child of William James Bingham, then principal of Hillsborough Academy, and his wife, Elizabeth Alves Norwood. After studying at his father’s school (1849–53), which by then had been moved to Oaks, he entered The University of North Carolina and was …
John B. Sutton
John B. Sutton of Bladen County, NC, was 40 years of age when he enlisted with the 18th NC., Co A July, 10th 1861. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Spotsylvania, May 12th, 1864. He was imprisoned at Pt. Lookout, Md., though the summer until transferred to Elmira, NY and received there August …