Our next meeting will be Saturday, November 15th at 10:30 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall of Bethesda Presbyterian Church at 1002 N. Sandhills Blvd., Aberdeen, NC. Park in back of the building and enter through the double doors at the top of the steps or ramp.

This will be our annual meeting where we will vote on board members and officers for the coming year. For the program, we would like for attendees to share a recent genealogical discovery. A new ancestor you’ve found, a “brick wall” breakthrough, letters or Bible records or photographs you have discovered, or something that belonged to one of your ancestors that tells something about the family and their times — this is your opportunity to “show and tell”!

Refreshments and coffee will be served.

All are welcome! Hope to see y’all Saturday!

Moore County historian Morgan Jackson’s two-volume set on the Confederate soldiers and sailors of Moore County NC is now available! This comprehensive work documents the soldiers and sailors who were born in, lived in, or received a Confederate pension in Moore and Lee (created in part from Moore in 1908) counties. Over 1,500 served, and over 500 never returned home. This work is a “must have” for Civil War and Moore County history buffs!
— Volume I includes comprehensive rosters that provide company and regiment information, service records, biographical information, photographs, and important documents for the thousands of soldiers, sailors and pensioners who served. It begins with a section depicting the division in the county at the war’s outset and details the formation and members of various companies including the “Moore Independents” from the storied 26th Infantry, the “Moore Sharpshooters,” the “Moore County Rifles” the “Moore County Scotch Riflemen,” and includes local outfits like the 51st Regiment of North Carolina Militia and the 59th Battalion of North Carolina Home Guard. 686 pages in total length with a full name index. Volume I can be purchased HERE.
— Volume II includes over 500 transcribed wartime letters to and from soldiers and their families in chronological order that track the war from beginning to end, Confederate Pension Rosters of Veterans and Widows, Conscription Papers, Petitions for Amnesty, a section on Deserters, Outliers and the War at Home, a recounting of local Civil War Blue and Gray Reunions and a Cemetery Census listing where every soldier is buried. 436 pages in total length with a full name index. Volume II can be purchased HERE.