Private William Taylor Land, Company B, enlisted as a Private at Petersburg, Virginia on 10/27/1864 and mustered into Co. B the same day. Promoted to Corporal on 2/1/1865. ''Deserted to the enemy'' (voluntarily surrendered) on or abt 3/8/1865. Confined at Washington, D.C. on 3/10/1865, where he later took the Oath of Allegiance and returned to North Carolina.
Private George W. Lawrence, Company E was taken prisoner at North Anna in May of 1864. His wife was Elizabeth Norris.
Private Thomas Alleson Kissiah enlisted on 22 Oct 1861 at the age of 22 and was mustered into Company I, 37th North Carolina Infantry Regiment on 20 Nov 1861. Absent without leave on 15 Jan 1865 (estimated date).
Private Jonathan Lee, Company K was a resident of Ashe County at time of enlistment; born Wilkes County, enlisted at Iredell 8/15/62; wounded in action at Fredericksburg 12/13/62; died at Guinea Station either 5/15/63 or 5/20/63.
Private Joshua Bowman, Company F was killed on April 2, 1865 along with Boon Little, after both were captured. They were buried in the same battlefield grave.
Private Alexander Parker, Company F, great great grandfather of William Moore, was wounded at Glendale (Frazier's Farm). His wounds were serious enough for him to be mustered out because he could not return to duty. He was from Wilkes County, North Carolina and is buried in the Liberty Baptist Church cemetery.
Jesse M. Miller was born in Watauga County where he resided as a farmer prior to enlisting in Watauga County at the age of 18 on September 14, 1861. Mustered as a private in Company B, 37th North Carolina Troops. Wounded at the battle of Shepherdstown, [West] Virginia, on September 20, 1862. Returned to duty prior to November 1, 1862. Wounded in the thigh at the battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13, 1862. Returned to duty prior to March 1, 1863. Reported absent without leave from September 14, 1864, through February 1865. Jesse later settled in Cooke County, Texas near Mountain Springs and is buried in New Hope Cemetery just North of Mountain Springs. His brother, Buck, served in the 2nd North Carolina Calvary, worked for many years as a cowboy on the Waggoner Ranch at Vernon Texas and was one of the last (50) Confederate Veterans to die in Texas. Buck is buried at Electra Texas. This information is from Michael C. Hardy and Bill Elbert Steward.
Sergeant William Henry Harrison (known as Billy), Company C, was born on March 2, 1843 to Joseph Harrison and his wife in Rowan county, near Huntersville, North Carolina. Shortly after the War Between the States broke out, a regiment was called for in his home area. Billy enlisted as a private in the Mecklenburg Wide Awakes on September 16, 1861. On November 20th, the Mecklenburg Wide Awakes were mustered into state service as company C, 37th Regiment North Carolina Troops at Camp Fisher, near High Point N.C. His enlistment was for a period of 12 months. On January 1, 1862 the 37th moved to Camp Mangum, near Raleigh where it was mustered into Confederate service. Billy was promoted to Corporal in September or October of 1863. On June 30, 1864 he was promoted to Sergeant. From this point on until the end of his life he was affectionately known as “Sergeant Billy” to friends and family alike. He surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Virginia on April 9, 1865. Throughout his service he sustained only one combat injury; the loss of the tip of his nose to a Union minie ball. His brother Franklin was killed in a gunpowder mill explosion during the war. One of his recollections was that one night he went to sleep with only a blanket and awoke the next morning covered in snow; following this, he broke out with the measles. After being paroled at Appomattox, he walked home to Huntersville, North Carolina. On July 7, 1902 Sgt. Billy applied for a soldier’s pension from the state of North Carolina. A doctor’s examination stated that “I find W.H. Harrison in feeble health, a general breakdown of the system, unable to work for a support, I don’t know his recovering ability.” William Henry Harrison died at the age of 72, on September 11, 1915. He is buried in Huntersville, N.C at the back, left hand side of the old Presbyterian church cemetery. This biography was compiled by Stephen Frederick Blancard, William Henry Harrison’s great, great grandson in January, 2000. It is based on family history hand written by Carrie Harrison Hall on February 18, 1953, North Carolina pension records, 37th North Carolina Troops documentation and oral history from Mary Hall Denny.
Private Thomas Jefferson Love, Company E, enlisted in the Confederate Army at Liberty Mills, Orange County, Virginia in 1863. He surrendered to Grant's army on Sunday morning, April 2nd 1865, at Petersburg, Virginia. He returned to his wife, Celia Amanda Hartley Love and children in Watauga County, North Carolina until his death on March 3rd 1934, aged 88 years, 10 months, 16 days.
Private George W. Blackburn served in Company A, formed of volunteers from Ashe County, North Carolina. He was one of four soldiers of the original company that made it through the war alive and was buried at Washington Courthouse, Ohio in an unmarked grave. A descendant acquired a headstone from the Veterans Administration and arranged for a dedication ceremony with a Confederate re-enactor unit acting as a honor guard.
Private Jeremiah Blackburn served in Company A and was the brother of Private George Blackburn. Jeremiah was executed by firing squad for desertion. According to family tradition, he was not a coward, but had left to tend to the family farm and get the crops planted. He returned to the regiment on his own, but higher military authority decided to make an example of Jeremiah to deter future desertions.
1st Lieutenant William A. Stuart, Company A, was wounded twice (Newbern and Fredericksburg). He was also a P.O.W. Lt. Stuart's brother, Andrew J. Stuart, also served in the same company as 1st Corporal. He was wounded and subsequently discharged. A cousin, Private Elijah Stuart, also in Company A, died of diptheria in September of 1862 in a Staunton, Virginia hospital.
Brothers Elijah DeBord (Compnay A, and Thomas J. DeBord (Company B), both privates, were from Ashe county, North Carolina and died during the war. Their brother's bible records that Thomas was wounded at Chancellorsville, operated on to remove 3 inches of bone from his arm, and later died of blood poisoning.
Drummer Calvin Collins, Company D, was wounded at or near Fraysers Farm, Virginia on June 30, 1862. His left leg was amputated and he died at a Richmond, Virginia hospital on July 16, 1862. He was born in Union County, North Carolina, the son of Garbriel and Demarias Collins.
Private Joseph Harrison Lundsford, Company E, enlisted August 15, 1862 and did not survive the War. He died a few days after Christmas at Guinea Station, Virginia following the battle at Fredericksburg.
Private Samuel Kinley, Company H, was captured at Spottsylvania and imprisoned at Elmira, New York.
Private James Weaver Clark, Sr., Company I, was killed at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
Private Samuel Sylvanus Gardiner, Company C, was wounded and captured.
Private Emmanuel Cloninger, Company H, was captured at Fredericksburg and later exchanged.
Private Joseph Harrison Lundsford, Company E, died December 27, 1862 shortly after the fighting at the Battle of Fredericksburg.
Private William Luffman, Company F, was born in Wilkes County, North Carolina in 1825, the oldest son of Wilson Luffman and Vicey Carter. He married Elizabeth Dickerson in 1850. He enlisted at Camp Vance, March 14, 1864 and was captured at Spotsylvania Courthouse, May 12, 1864. Private Luffman was confined at Point Lookout, Maryland until transferred to Elmira, New York, August 10, 1864, where he died on November 29, 1864 of pleuro-pneumonia.
