Record #:

32927

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

Petition by the women of the vicinity of Falkland, NC to exempt R. H. Parker from military service. He was wounded in 1862 in the battle at Sharpsburg and came home to recover. His father is alive, age 77, and furnished six sons for the war and has two daughters whose husbands are at war. The women of the area are dependent on R. H. Parker for the necessities of life.

Source:

Pitt County Genealogical Quarterly (NoCar F253 .P57), Vol. XV Issue No. 1, February 2008, p9

Subject(s):

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