Pension Application for Benjamin Gray of the CSS Albemarle
Benjamin Gray
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Charles Freeman
Charles Freeman-1st NCUV Company C Divided Allegiances by Gerald W. Thomas Photo courtesy of Delores Forehand
Refuse To Bow Down
The Hoggard brothers of Bertie County Thomas, Gerald W. Divided Allegiances: Bertie County during the Civil War. Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1996 On August 28, 1863 conscription officers visited the home of David Hoggard Jr. near Jernigan Town. The thirty-three-year-old Hoggard had been married almost 10 years, and he and his […]
Drafting Slaves into the Confederate Army
Divided Allegiances: Bertie County during the Civil War With the rampant exodus of slaves from area plantations, opportunistic Northern recruiters at Plymouth attempted to exploit the situation by hastily enlisting large numbers of soldiers. The recruiters sent out other blacks from Plymouth to assist the fleeing slaves in reaching the town so that they might […]
Ole Pap fought with the Yankees
William David Thomas William David Thomas was born in Bertie County in February 1845. He was sixteen years old when the Civil War began, making him of prime age for military service during the war. I had naturally assumed that he, being a native North Carolinian, served in the Confederate army; however, my research at […]
