Record #:

17339

Author(s):

Hicklin, J. B.

Abstract:

Hicklin recounts the story of how George Mills, a sixteen-year-old slave, brought the body of his master, Captain Watt Bryson, Company G, 35th Regiment N.C.T., back from a Maryland battlefield where he had been killed in 1863.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 7 Issue 10, Aug 1939, p30

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Deaths, Confederate; Mills, George, d. 1925; Bryson, Watt, d. 1863