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Dempsey Wright

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James Wright

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Levi Wright

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William Wright

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William Riggs

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http://www.footnote.com/page/284954531_william_riggs/ SOLDIER’S NAME Riggs, William LAST RANK Private DATE ENLISTED Aug. 10, 1862 WHERE ENLISTED Camden, NC AGE AT ENLISTMENT 19 COUNTY BORN Camden Co., NC Mustered out with regiment on June 27, 1865 at New Bern, NC.

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Peter T. Burgess

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Three Hundred Years Along the Pasquotank A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY of CAMDEN COUNTY BY JESSE FORBES PUGH • The Buffaloes and the Civil War in Camden County PETER T. BURGESS 1835-1903 MOST NORTH CAROLINIANS were opposed to secession before the fall of Fort Sumter and President Lincoln’s subsequent call upon the governor of this state for […]

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History will do them justice, when it shall come to be fairly & fully written. But their present lot is one of local dishonor & infamy. They are stigmatized as renegades and traitors to the South.... The rebellion which they fought to overcome has succumbed, and the Union which they fought to maintain has reasserted its imperial authority. But what recognition or reward have they? The Republic owes these brave loyalists, or their surviving relatives, a debt not only of gratitude & honor, but of pecuniary compensation. They need immediate relief. - Charles H. Foster

These men are from different portions of this State having responded to the call of the country under the disadvantages of persecution as relentless as the inquisition. They have stood by the nation in its hour of trial, and now that they are about to return to their respective homes in sections which have been in rebellion and where there is still that hostile feeling which could prompt insult and outrage, it would be an honor to their patriotism, give them a means of self protection and ...coincide with the policy of organizing and arming Home Guards. These men can be depended upon in sustaining the laws of the country, putting down guerrillas and bringing criminals to justice. - Col. Oscar Eastmon, June 10, 1865

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