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November 13, 2012

United States Colored Troops, no. 3.

36 U.S.C.T. George W. Bowser. Co. F, 36 Reg’t U.S. Col’d Inf. appears on Company Descriptive Book of the organization named above. Description: age, 25 years; height, 5 feet 7 1/2 inches; complexion, black; eyes, black; hair, black; where born, Currituck, NC; occupation, farmer. Enlistment: when, Aug. 26, 1863; where, Roanoke Is.; by whom, Lt. McClain; term, 3 years. Remarks: “’Free’ on or before Apl 19-1861”

37 U.S.C.T. Spencer Bowser. Co. K, 37 Reg’t U.S. Col’d Inf. appears on Company Descriptive Book of the organization named above. Description: age, 28 years; height, 6 feet; complexion, black; eyes, black; hair, black; where born, Tyrrel, NC; occupation, boatman. Enlistment: when, Sept. 2, 1864; where, Roanoke Isl., NC; by whom, G.M. Cleland; term, 3 years. Remarks: “Died Feb. 19 1865 at N.S. Hospital Ft. Monroe, Va.”

The 1860 census of Tyrrell County lists Linn Bowser, 45, with Spencer, 24, shingle maker, and George Bowser, 23, mariner.

5 U.S.C.T. George Haithcock. Co. B, 5 Reg’t U.S. Col’d Inf. appears on Company Descriptive Book of the organization named above. Description: age, 23 years; height, 5 feet 7 1/2 inches; complexion, light; eyes, brown; hair, black; where born, Halifax Co., NC; occupation, farmer. Enlistment: when, Aug. 11, 1864; where, Chillicothe, Oh.; by whom, H.J.L. Wilson; term, 1 year.

The 1850 census of Union County, Ohio, lists: Therogo Dempsey, 54, his wife Betsey, 45, and daughter Martha, 21, with Meredy, 25, William, 22, George, 10, and Eliza Haithcock,11. All were born in NC and described as mulatto.

28 U.S.C.T. Gabriel Manuel. Co. F, 28 Reg’t U.S. Col’d Inf. appears on Company Descriptive Book of the organization named above. Description: age, 28 years; height, 6 feet 1 inch; complexion, black; eyes, black; hair, black; where born, Samson Co., NC; occupation, farmer. Enlistment: when, Feb. 16, 1865; where, Terehut [Terre Haute, Ind.]; by whom, Capt. Thompson; term, 1 year.

In the 1850 census of Sampson County: Ephraim Manuel, 54, wife Bythiney, 47, and children Nancy, 18, Emelia, 16, Gabriel, 9, Susan, 6, and John, 1, plus relative Emelia Manuel, 98.

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November 12, 2012

Herring, Union soldier.

Hillary Herring enlisted in the 37th Colored Troops in 1864. At the time, he was 23 years old, 6 feet 1/2 inches tall, light-complexioned, with black eyes and dark hair. He was born in Onslow County and worked as a farmer. Herring was discharged from the army on 11 February 1867. After a two-year acquaintance, he married Kizzy Dudley on 18 December 1869 in Burgaw, Pender County. Rev. Elisha Boon performed the ceremony. It was Hillary’s first marriage, but Kizzy had married John Herring in 1863 and was left a widow when he died in August 1866. Hillery Herring died 30 June 1876 in Bentonsville, Johnston County, of “disease of lungs.” Dr. Martin Harper attended him during his final illness. Lewis Hood furnished his coffin and served as undertaker, and Rev. John James Harper, a white man, preached the funeral sermon.

At the time of her application, Kizzy Herring lived in Lonoke, Lonoke County, Arkansas. Many of her witnesses had known her in North Carolina and had also migrated West. She was poor and little able to support herself.

Abstracted from “#563,970. Claim of Kizza Harring, widow of Hillary Harring, Co. A, 37 U.S.C.T., for Widow’s Pension.”

In the 1850 census of the South Side of the Neuse, Wayne County: John Herring, 50, wife Charity, 40, and their children John Green, 18, Solomon, 16, Daniel, 14, Hillery, 12, James, 10, Outy, 7, Harriet, 4, and Doctor, 0.

[Sidenote: On 21 November 1872, my great-great-great-grandparents, Lewis and Margaret Henderson, and Hillery and Keziah Herring sold two tracts totalling about 80 acres to John P. Cobb and Jesse Hollowell, these being tracts purchased from William R. Davis. There was no deed recording the purchase from Davis. Both Lewis and Hillery were born in Onslow County. Were they related? If not, why did they buy land together? — LYH]

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November 8, 2012

United States Colored Troops, no. 2.

27 U.S.C.T. Britton Tann. Co. E, 27 Reg’t U.S. Col’d Inf. appears on Company Descriptive Book of the organization named above. Description: age, 28 years; height, 5 feet 10 inches; complexion, dark; eyes, black; hair, black; where born, Hartford [sic] NC; occupation, laborer. Enlistment: when, Feb. 27, 1864; where, Ross Co., Oh.; by whom, C. Beery; term, 3 years.

5 U.S.C.T. John E.H. Taborn. Co. E, 5 Reg’t U.S. Col’d Inf. appears on Company Descriptive Book of the organization named above. Description: age, 18 years; height, 5 feet 3 inches; complexion, mulatto; eyes, grey; hair, brown; where born, Granville Co., NC; occupation, laborer. Enlistment: when, July 26, 1863; where, Union Co., Oh.; by whom, unknown; term, 3 years.

5 U.S.C.T. Henderson Tabourn. Co. A, 5 Reg’t U.S. Col’d Inf. appears on Company Descriptive Book of the organization named above. Description: age, 41 years; height, 5 feet 8 inches; complexion, black; eyes, black; hair, black; where born, Orange Co., NC; occupation, cabinet maker. Enlistment: when, Sept. 1, 1864; where, Wooster, Oh.; by whom, [blank]; term, 1 year. Remarks: “wounded in action at Deep Bottom Va.”

36 U.S.C.T. Abel Archy. Co. G, 36 Reg’t U.S. Col’d Inf. appears on Company Descriptive Book of the organization named above. Description: age, 29 years; height, 5 feet 11 inches; complexion, dark; eyes, dark; hair, dark; where born, Currituck Co., NC; occupation, laborer and boatman. Enlistment: when, Oct. 28, 1863; where, Norfolk, Va.; by whom, Cap. J.N. Croft; term, 3 years. Remarks: “married mustered out at Brazos Santiago, Texas, Oct. 28, 1866.”

In the 1860 census of Moyock, Currituck County NC: Tabitha Archy, 50, with Mary, 29, Caleb, 17, and Abel Archy, 14, plus John Woodhouse, 3.

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November 6, 2012

United States Colored Troops, no. 1.

28 U.S.C.T. Nicholas Manuel. Co. D, 28 Reg’t U.S. Col’d Inf. appears on Company Descriptive Book of the organization named above. Description: age 27, years; height, 5 feet 11 inches; complexion, yellow; eyes, black; hair, black; where born, Samson Co., NC; occupation, farmer. Enlistment: when, Dec. 28, 1864; where, Lafayette, Ind.; by whom, Thos. Brown; term, 3 years.

This is possibly (1) the 12 year-old mulatto Nicholas Manuel listed in the household of Ismael and Martha Manuel in the Northern District of Sampson County and (2) the 31 year-old Nicholas Manual listed with wife Anna, 25, in Washington, Boone County, Indiana.

8 U.S.C.T. Thomas Artis. Co. A, 8 Reg’t U.S. Col’d Inf. appears on Company Descriptive Book of the organization named above. Description: age, 30 years; height, 6 feet 5 inches; complexion, colored; eyes, black; hair, black; where born, Wayne Co., NC; occupation farmer. Enlistment: when, Mar 21, 1865; where, Wabash, Ind.; by whom, Capt. Cowgill; term, 1 year.

This is not the Thomas Artis, age 15, listed in the household of Celia Artis (his mother) in the 1850 census of the North Side of the Neuse River, Wayne County. He is possibly the Thomas Artis, age 20, listed as a farmhand in the household of white farmer William Hooks in the same district. He is likely the Thomas Artis, age 27, listed in the 1860 census of Reserve township, Parke County, Indiana, with wife Mary, 22, daughter Sarah C. (2) and “farmer boy” John Bass. Thomas and Mary were born in NC; Sarah and John in Indiana.

4 U.S.C.T. Mathew Jones. Co. F, 4 Reg’t U.S. Col’d Inf. appears on Company Descriptive Book of the organization named above. Description: age 32 years; height 5 feet 7 inches; complexion mulatto; eyes black; hair black; where born Nash Co., NC; occupation farmer. Enlistment: when, Aug. 30, 1864; where, Bournesville, Oh.; by whom, Joseph Bourgess; term, 1 year.

Matthew Jones, age 18, is listed with his mother Easter Jones and siblings in the household of white farmer Jacob Ing in the 1850 census of Nash County. Ing was his father. See earlier post.

Combined Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers, National Archives and Records Administration; federal population schedules.

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October 28, 2012

Threatened me with punishment if I done so again.

Daniel Manuel filed claim #5535 with the Southern Claims Commission. He was 54 years old and had lived 10 miles west of Fayetteville for the previous 5 years. Sometime during the war, he moved about 30 miles from Bladen County, where he was free-born, to a place about 6 miles west of Fayetteville. Before the war, he lived in Sampson County. He was a farmer and cooper, but only farmed during the war.

He worked for 4 months at the Confederate arsenal in Fayetteville “very much against my wish.” He was “on the union side all the time but could not say anything being a col’d man not entitled to a vote or allowed to talk.”

He named Hardy West, Arch’d Buie and John Buie, all white men, as witnesses to his loyalty, but all refused to testify. “So,” he said, “I have to call on my own col. for that proof.”

“While I was at work at the arsenal I was arrested and taken before the com’d officer and examined on the charge of talking in favour of the union cause with some of my own col. I confessed that I had expressed myself in that way the officer threatened me with punishment if I done so again. He turned me loose and I went back to work” in the blacksmith shop. His nephew George Manuel was also forced to work at the arsenal.

Marshal White, aged about 47, lived about 5 miles west of Fayetteville and worked as a cooper. For the last two years he had lived on the the same plantation as Daniel.

Peter Owen, aged about 40, had lived 8 miles west of Fayetteville for 4 years. Before that, he lived at 3 different places. During the war, he lived with William Owen and farmed. He had known Daniel since he was a small boy and lived on the same plantation as Daniel about 2 years before the war.

Richard Lovitt, 51, had lived in Beaver Creek, about 6 miles west of Fayetteville for over 19 years. He farmed and distilled turpentine. He had known Daniel since 1861.

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