John Henry Sellers Company B 11th Regiment Georgia volunteers

MY 2nd cousin 5x removed... John Henry Sellers Veteran of Company B 11th Regiment Georgia volunteers Discharged May 1865 when his unit surrendered. He was born in Habersham County, Georgia., May 12, 1848, and early in life joined the Baptist Church of which he remained a faithful member till his death. He married Miss Elizabeth Bentley and they had 10 children. John Sellers lived most of his life in North Georgia and later moved to Appling County where he passed away on 24 Feb 1928. John received a veteran's pension, He suffered from debilitating pain from rheumatism which was caused by exposure while in service to the Confederate States.

Lewis Hambright Company B, 5th South Carolina state troops

Lewis Hambright husband of Martha Patsy Logan (my 4th great grandfather and grandmother.) Lewis along with two of his brothers Gilbreth Hambright and Josiah Martin Hambright (my 4th great grand uncles) Enlisted in Company B, 5th South Carolina state troops also known as the 34th Militia. This unit was organized just three days after major Confederate losses at Gettysburg and Vicksburg for 6 months service. The 5th was ordered to Charleston SC by General Beauregard.

Lewis Hambright was born @ 1820 in York, South Carolina and died Feb 1875. He is buried in Antioch Baptist Church, Cherokee, South Carolina,

Lieutenant Harley W Laney

Lieutenant Harley W Laney enlisted at the age of 24 as a Private at Union County, NC North Carolina in Company E, 48th Infantry Regiment North Carolina Troops on 08 May 1862. Killed in action 05 Feb 1865 at Hatcher's Run, VA. Sources: North Carolina Troops 1861-65, A Roster He is buried at Laney Family Cemetery Union County North Carolina, CSA. My 2nd cousin 6x removed, R.I.P...Deo Vindice, Resurgam!

Private George C Cassada

 

George C Cassada of Buncombe County, North Carolina Enlisted at the age of 18 as a private in Company C 29th regiment NC troops on 8 Jun 1861 He died from fever on 12 Dec 1862 at Morristown, TN. His name appears on the 29th Reg. NC Troops roll of honour. MY 1st cousin 7x removed

Marcus Conner Dellinger

My 2nd cousin 6x removed Marcus Conner Dellinger and his children.Marcus was a carpenter before he was conscripted at the age of 26 into Co. C., 37th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, CSA as a private on 15 Aug 1862. He was 5'8" with a light complexion, he had brown hair and grey eyes. He was Promoted to Full Corporal on 15 Mar 1863.

 
Corporal Dellinger was wounded at Fredericksburg. On 15 December 1862 he was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond Virginia for a gunshot wound to the knee/leg. He was captured at Petersburg 2 April 1865 and was a P.O.W at Point Look Out Prison, he was released 11 June 1865 Born 26 November 1836 in , Lincoln county , North Carolina,
Death 29 November 1926 in Portales, Roosevelt, New Mexico, United States

Marcus Dellinger was recently mentioned in the book "Civil War Prisions & Escapes"by Robert E Denny

CAPTAIN BENJAMIN NEWTON

My 7th Great Grandfather was CAPTAIN BENJAMIN NEWTON son of Ebenezer Newton and Elizabeth Buchanan. Benjamin Newton first joined the Army When the British came to Charleston. Captain Newton enlisted to go on an expedition against the Cherokee Indians as a 1st lieutenant under Captain John Mattocks, William Chronicle was the Major, and Frederick Hambright(my 6th great grandfather) was his Colonel. Capt. Newton also spent one year in the service against Tories in Lincoln and Rutherford and the upper part of South Carolina – his group marched over to Green River in Rutherford where they met with 800 men under different colonels, their object was to engage British Colonel Patrick Ferguson. Captain Newton was not present at the Battle of King's mountain because he was sent as an express to General Rutherford who was at Coddle Creek, Mecklenburg NC. He next volunteered with others to join General Greene near Camden South Carolina

His group under the command of Colonel Graham went to Lincoln in pursuit of a Tory Colonel Moore, However, they arrived late at the battle of Ramsour's Mills in Lincolnton NC, Captain Newton shot at one of the Tories as he was running from the battle. Captain Newton was in an engagement against Col.Tarleton in the Haw fields in Orange County North Carolina and Captain Newton was also in a small engagement with the British at Polk's Mills under Captain John Clark,during this engagement Benjamin Newton was wounded in the thigh by a British ball

CAPTAIN BENJAMIN NEWTON is buried in Old Cloverhill Cemetery in Casar NC. The cemetery is in a pasture where some of the headstones were toppled by cows that roamed the land.

Dallas W. Hartis Company B 2nd North Carolina Junior Reserves

My 4th great granduncle Dallas W. Hartis, age 17. Born in Mecklenburg county North Carolina, stood 5 feet 8 1/2 inches tall with a fair complexion dark hair and hazel eyes. Enlisted 21 may 1864 as a private in Company B 2nd North Carolina Junior Reserves (Anderson's battalion) Confederate States of America. He was paroled at Charlotte NC on 3 May 1865.The 2nd North Carolina Junior Reserves served in the Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia and was active in the New Bern area. Later the unit was assigned to L.S. Baker in the Army of Tennessee and saw action in the Battle of Bentonville .