Record #:

23468

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

In 1926, John Lang, an 83-year-old Civil War veteran, spoke of his experiences as a soldier in the 27th North Carolina regiment. His memory brought back the story of the regiment's first colonel, who abandoned his men at Kinston, but was then replaced by Col. Cook, whom Lang and the other soldiers of the regiment liked very much. Mr. Lang spoke of his seeing Robert E. Lee on several occasions, a train derailment in the Virginia mountains, the time during the Battle of the Wilderness when a fellow Confederate soldier stole his ham, as well as the final days of the war when he was assigned to guard a train at Appomattox Station, VA.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Aug 20-Sep 2 2003, p10-11

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865