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051 NOR NCC. North Carolina Historical Review.

  • “The Road to Gettysburg: The Diary and Letters of Leonidas Torrence of the Gaston Guards” by Leonidas Torrence (Ed. by Haskell Monroe). North Carolina Historical Review. Vol. 36 (1959). Pgs. 476 – 517.
    Letters from Leonidas Torrence, a member of the “Gaston Guards”, Co. H., 23rd North Carolina Regiment. This regiment was previously Co. H., 13th North Carolina Regiment.

929.1 ESW NCC. Eswau Huppeday.

  • “Bounty Payments for Co. M, 16th Regiment – Gaston Co.” Eswau Huppeday. Vol. 14, No. 3 (August 1994). Pgs. 181 – 190.
    Includes payroll lists, letters, etc. of Gaston County Confederate soldiers.
  • “Co. B, 28th Regiment Miscellaneous Records ‘The Gaston Invincibles’ ”. Eswau Huppeday. Vol. 24, No. 1 (February 2004). Pgs. 34 – 46.
    Includes discharge letters and bounty records.
  • “Confederate Record of S. S. Guardmen from the Gastonia Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.” Eswau Huppeday.
    Split between four issues:
    • Vol. 15, No. 3 (August 1995). Pgs. 161 – 170.
    • Vol. 15, No. 4 (November 1995). Pgs. 223 – 235.
    • Vol. 16, No. 1 (February 1996). Pgs. 18 – 24.
    • Vol. 16, No. 2 (May 1996). Pgs. 79 – 84.
    These all include records of questions answered by former Confederate soldiers from Gaston and Lincoln County.
  • “Gaston County Pension Letters” by Heather Wright Robbins. Eswau Huppeday.
    Split between two issues:
    • Vol. 27, No. 3 (August 2007). Pgs. 140 – 151.
    • Vol. 27, No. 4 (November 2007). Pgs. 207 – 220.
    Articles include an index of names and several reproductions of letters related to pensions for Confederate soldiers from Gaston County.
  • “Lincoln County Civil War Pensioners 1885 – 1901” by Virginia Graham DePriest. Eswau Huppeday. Vol. 4, No. 4 (November 1984). Pgs. 275 – 281.
    Alphabetical list of names.
  • “Lincoln County Pension Letters” by Heather Wright Robbins. Eswau Huppeday. Vol. 28, No. 3 (August 2008). Pgs. 119 – 132.
    Articles include an index of names and several reproductions of letters related to pensions for Confederate soldiers from Lincoln County.
  • “North Carolina Soldiers 1861 – 1865: Where Did They Come From?” Eswau Huppeday. Vol. 29, No. 3 (August 2009). Pgs. 149 – 171.
    List of regiments, companies, and nicknames of regiments.
  • Two articles that list soldiers who received artificial limbs from the state of North Carolina after the war:
    • “Maimed Confederate Veterans.” Eswau Huppeday. Vol. 9, No. 4 (November 1989). Pg. 253.
    • “Update to ‘Maimed Confederate Veterans’” by Kenneth Spears. Eswau Huppeday. Vol. 10, No. 2 (May 1990). Pgs. 93 – 94.

929.1 FOO NCC. Footprints in Time.

  • “Appomattox, April 12, 1865” by Len Blemmer. Footprints in Time. (June 2009). Pgs. 59 – 61.
    Twenty three members of the “Gaston Rangers”, Co. H., 49th North Carolina Regiment, paroled at Appomattox.
  • George Franklin Havner [Heafner, Heavner] Letters. Letters of a Confederate Soldier. (Lincoln County native, moved to Buncombe County near Asheville where he entered the Confederate service, Co. A, Buncombe Light Artillery, 60th Reg. Inf. State Troops.) Footprints in Time. Letters Introduction. (December 2023) Pgs. 161-170. Transcribed Letters appear in the following: (March 2024) Pgs. 3-13.; (June 2024) Pgs. 55-64; (September 2024) Pgs. 100-111. Continuing Series.

 

The Gaston Gazette [Microfilm]. Available at the Reference Desk of the Gastonia Main Library.

Books

  • 362.86 WEG NCC. Phantom Pain: North Carolina’s Artificial-Limbs Program for Confederate Veterans.
    This volume includes maimed veterans listed in the Eswau Huppeday articles, as well as soldiers throughout North Carolina.
  • 975.6 CAR. Gaston County, North Carolina, in the Civil War, by Robert C. Carpenter. Includes Gaston County Tax List of 1863.
  • 973.7 BLA NCC. Black Southerners in Gray.
    Includes the essay “Black Confederates in Lincoln County, North Carolina” by Rudolph Young.
  • 973.7 HAR NC. Remembering North Carolina’s Confederates by Michael C. Hardy.
    Includes photographs of veterans and monuments in the Piedmont, including Gaston County.
  • 973.7 HAR NCC. The Thirty-Seventh North Carolina Troops: Tar Heels in the Army of Northern Virginia by Michael C. Hardy.
    Includes information about the “Gaston Blues”, Co. H., 37th North Carolina Regiment.
  • 973.7025 LES NCC. Lest We Forget! A Civil War Roster for Lincoln County, North Carolina.
  • 973.781 LIN NCC. Letters of a Gaston Ranger by James Wellington Lineberger (Ed. by Hugh Douglas Pitts).
    Includes personal letters by 2nd Lt. James Wellington Lineberger of the “Gaston Rangers”, Co. H., 49th North Carolina Regiment.

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Author: Gaston County Public Library
Title: Finding Civil War Soldiers: Gaston and Lincoln Counties
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Revised: 10 October 2024

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