Record #:

23515

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

Articles from area newspapers are pulled together to tell tales from the Civil War, including the story of Bryan Buck, Civil War veteran, ready to go into the Spanish-American War in 1898. The story of W. I. Whitehurst and the part he played in the volley that killed Gen. Stonewall Jackson. The story of Frank, George and David Crawford, sons of Calvin Crawford, and their antedotes from the war. The story of Jesse Vincent, Reuben Kinsaul, Calvin Mills, and Jesse T. Forrest, Confederate veterans. The story of J. H. P. Bryan and his coat and knife from the war. The story of Matthew Hart, an area Civil War veteran who engaged in 17 battles and on each occasion tied a red string around his arm. The humorous story of Warren McGlawhorn, who fell in a ditch. The story of Dan Thomas, who lived and died in Pitt County, was the only Confederate to plant a flag on the enemy's works at Gettysburg. And lastly, the story of Edward Brown, who lived like a hermit and didn’t know the Civil War ended.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Nov 15-28 2000, p4-5

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History--Civil War, 1861-1865