22nd Infantry – Stokes Boys
did i ever let you in on the seriousness of my southern roots? maybe i should just so that you don’t tease me ’bout the south too much.
- my english folks came over on a boat around 1700
- alex spent some time fight’n the nasty redcoats
- alex found that the PA soil wasn’t so kind to growing tobacco so he walked on down to NC
- alex’s grandson william henry spencer joined the confederate army with his cousin (22nd regiment * ’stokes boys’)
- william henry spencer fought all the way to gettysburg and was taken prisoner
- william henry later walked home and built a fine house in sandy ridge just a short walk from alex’s place
- all my life i hear about the importance of understanding “the war”
- my grandpa was named willy after his rebel great-grandfather
- age 19 i took a likin’ to it all
- been a civil war addict ever since
don’t mess with dixie
I have a civil war record of a William Henry Spencer of Stokes, North Carolina who was a Captain inCo. I,66th North Carolina Infantry, Spencer’s Rangers. He was captured Feb. 24th,1864 at Fairfield, North Carolina and was imprisioned at Point Lookout, Maryland.
Is this your relative?