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17039
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Gerard discusses the burdens of war that soldiers carry in addition to their normal knapsacks, rifles, and blanket rolls.
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21478
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This is a reprint of an article that appeared in the Confederate Veteran, Vol. 1, No. 12, December 1893. It presents readers with a description of the typical Confederate soldier and gives North Carolinians a picture of what their fighting men looked like.
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21189
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John Henry Cooper left his wife, family, and job in Raleigh to fight for the Confederacy. He joined the 3rd Regiment NC Artillery, but was later transferred to Lt. Col. John Haskell's Company F, 13th Battalion, NC Light Infantry, where he served for the war. The authors used historical records to document this company's movements and thereby surmise the conditions under which Cooper and others like him served and suffered.
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20628
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Alden G. Howell, Captain Company L, 16th Regiment North Carolina Troops, at the age of 105 is the oldest living commissioned officer of the Confederate Army. He is one of the last twelve Confederate veterans on the North Carolina pension roll. He is also the oldest living Free Mason and retired banker and lawyer in the country. A full-page photograph accompanying the article shows Howell holding a photograph of him in uniform taken during the Civil War.
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17844
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There are not many Confederate soldiers alive today, but Rev. Furney A. Prevatt, who lives in Robeson County and was a member of the 18th Regiment N.C.T., remembers being at Chancellorsville with Jackson and at Gettysburg with Lee. He was in Pickett's Charge on the third day of the Gettysburg fight, and was later captured at the battle of Spotsylvania Court House in May 1864.
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15985
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J. Rowan Davis of Salisbury was the youngest person to serve in North Carolina's Civil War regiments. At the age of twelve years, he was a core maker in a Confederate arsenal; at fourteen he was a member of Johnston's Field Artillery; and at sixteen in 1865, he was a prisoner of war at Camp Chase near Columbus, Ohio. He is 87 years old.
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