The North Carolina Standard Wed. May 20, 1863 1st Regiment NCUV Company E SOLDIER’S NAME Wilson, Halsey LAST RANK Private DATE ENLISTED Aug 4, 1862 WHERE ENLISTED Mintonsville, NC AGE AT ENLISTMENT 28 COUNTY BORN Perquimans Co., NC REMARKS Died of consumption at Washington, NC Apr 24, 1864
Reminiscences and memoirs of North Carolina and eminent North Carolinians by Wheeler, John Hill 1806-1882 This section of the state suffered sadly from the ravages of warfare, for after the fall of Roanoke Island the sounds and navigable rivers were open to the enemy’s gunboats. These coasted up and down, and bore off the means […]
Page 244 In the early part of the Civil War there was a detachment of Confederate soldiers encamped at Gatesville, the county seat of Gates, an adjoining county of Chowan. In this detachment was one Jack Fairless, a native of Gates. He was said to have committed theft, and for the alleged crime was taken […]
