Record #:

31781

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

In Sept. 1910, W. E. Whitmore of Scotland Neck was visiting family in Greenville. He was a Confederate veteran and during the Civil War was stationed near Red Banks Church, where two of his comrades were killed and one captured when on picket duty in attempting to prevent an advance of Federal troops on Greenville. He and R. R. Cotton were in the same company.

Source:

Pitt County Genealogical Quarterly (NoCar F253 .P57), Vol. II Issue No. 3, August 1995, p22

Subject(s):

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