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Richard Phillips
1st and 2nd NC Union Volunteers. Union soldiers from Onslow County. Descendant of Edward Phillips , James Riggs, and Joseph Rhodes.
Teresa Ortega
Conway, Hall, Humphrey, Kellum, Riggs, and Smith families of Onslow County. Descendant of Purnell Smith. Henry H. Sawyer of Tyrell County.
Michael I. Phelps
The Civil War in N/E North Carolina. 1st North Carolina Union Volunteers, Company L, (North Carolina Union Calvary). Descendant of James Phelps.
John Burney McGowan
1st and 2nd Regiments of Infantry, North Carolina (Union) Volunteers
John Burney McGowan, 68, of Laurinburg died Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Soule Cemetery in SwanQuarter. He is survived by two sisters, Linda McQueen and husband Jim of Laurinburg and Kathy Mason and husband Greg of Salisbury; and a brother, James A. McGowan and wife Daisy of Garden City, S.C. He was preceded in death by a brother, Dorman J. McGowan. Born Feb. 12, 1941 in Swan Quarter, he was the son of the late James Alton and Mary Hooper McGowan. John graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a degree in History and served with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific during the Vietnam conflict. Afterwards, he worked for many years as a painter. Memorials may be made to a charity of one’s choice. McDougald Funeral Home and Crematorium is serving the family.
My great-great grandfather John L. Flora served in the St. Bride’s Cavalry company formed in Norfolk County, VA in 1861 which became Co. F, 15th Va Cavalry. His father had remarried a wealthy widow in Camden County, NC before the war who after the war claimed to be a loyal Union woman. Family tradition says John returned home during the war caught a Yankee on the famiy farm, killed him and threw his body into a nearby creek or pond. Several men of his company from NC are listed in a company history as having been killed by Buffaloes in NC. In John’s compiled service record he received a 30 day furlough in 1864 to return home for a remount having lost his horse. As you probably know Confederate soldiers furnished their own mounts. I have wondered if the soldier he killed was a Buffalo. Can anyone give me any additional information?