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My Southern Roots
North Carolina - Virginia Genealogy |
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Milton Powell GRANT. For a few years I thought that M. P. Grant was in the Civil War, and enlisted in the Confederate Army in Petersburg, Viginia on September 30, 1861. Through my research, I found that a Milton Grant was assigned to the 41st Reg't Virginia Infantry, 2nd Co. G, serving as a Private. H. E. Howard's book on the 41st, states that was Milton was "a stationary steam engineer" in his private life and lived "on Sheppard Street, between West and Dunlop Streets". Most of his military records list him as absent or "without leave." However, after looking at the census records, our Milton P. Grant was home on the farm, unless with his absents "without leave" he was recorded TWICE. I am positive it is two different Milton Grant, There are also related Bullin and Lawson family members who fought and died for the South. (More to come) |
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Union Civil War Guard |
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NOTE: Though I am personally against slavery and strive for pluralism in my own life, if you had lived in America (both in the North and South) during the colonial through the Civil War era, numerous individuals and families owned slaves. It would be a difficult situation to have a majority of your economy centered upon cotton, agriculture and in need of a workforce to work the land. .
Question: If you were born in the south during the Civil War period, owned a large cotton farm that you inherited from your family, would you own slaves or go against your Southern customs and society? The Civil War posed this question on the South.
One of my ancestors served as a body guard for General George Washington during the Revolutionary War. In fact, in honor of the a northern general my southern great-grandfather's parents named their son, Ulysess S. Grant after the noted General/President Ulysess. S. Grant. Other's were POW's in Northern Civil War camps. |
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Civil War Charge -- Brother Against Brother -- A Struggle Within A Nation |
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In the early 1900s, my grandfather, Charles Christian Martinson, met my grandmother Maud Lovida Grant while serving a church missinon in North Carolina. Picture: Charles Martinson (left) on his mission. |
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Center: Maud Grant, Yellowstone Park. Right: A family picture on Sunday in Stokes County, North Carolina. |
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My Related Southern Family Lines: (Under construction)
Direct lines: Barker, Bertram, Bullen/Bullin, Clark, Coleman, Cramlington, Diskin, Foote, Glendening, Grant, Harvey, Hawkins, Hayward, Horsley, Killinghall, Lawson (Lawson/De Lancaster), Livingston, LLeweyn, Lyttell, Mott, Roberts, Pigg, Palmer, Powell, Pugh, Reed, Rowland, Shackleford, Simmons (Seamon./Syman), Swynhowe, Tilley and Wales
Related families: Curry, DeWitt, Freeman, Kirkman, Nance, Roseth, Truman (President Harry S. Truman's family), Wall and White |
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LINKS and RESOURCES:
Mount Airy, North Carolina * Stokes County Genealogical Society * * The Northern Neck of Virginia *
* * Surry County Genealogical Society * Map of Surry County, NC
Civil War Links: * American Civil War * * The American Civil War (an excellent historical site) *
* The Confederate Army in the Civil War * Confederate Regiment History Links * Civil War Map
Killed In Action * NPS Civil War Soldiers & Sailor System * The Library of Virginia * |
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My grandmother, Maud Grant, was born and raised in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina. Today, it is associated with the town of Mayberry, RFD, on the hit sitcom, the Andy Griffith Show (still in reruns).. |
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Be sure to visit my other pages!
Remember the INDEX is your road map around my site. |
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This material may be copyrighted and may not be used without the permission of the author. J. Martinson (c) 2004. |
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