Record #:

12781

Author(s):

Hosking, Katherine

Abstract:

Sergeant John Thomas Rhodes was eighteen when he enlisted as one of the 179 Guilford Grays. A Confederate division deployed to fight in the Seven Day's Battle at Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Bristow Station, and Spotsylvania, the Guilford Grays also witnessed General Lee's forced surrender at Appomattox. Rhodes survived all of the aforementioned battles and lived a full life after the Civil War.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 30 Issue 21, Mar 1963, p11, il

Subject(s):

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