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Finding Civil War Soldiers:
Gaston and Lincoln Counties

Note: Book locations: G=Gastonia Main, J=Jonas, Lincolnton.

Gaston County

"Bounty Payments for Co. M, 16th Regiment - Gaston Co." Eswau Huppeday 14, no. 3 (August 1994): 181-190. [929.1 E NCC], G + J. Includes payroll lists, letters, etc. of Gaston County Confederate soldiers.

"Co.B, 28th Regiment Miscellaneous Records "The Gaston Invincibles," Eswau Huppeday 24, no. 1 (February 2004): 34-46. [929.1 ESW NCC], G + J. Includes discharge letters and bounty records.

Robbins, Heather Wright. "Gaston County Pension Letters," Eswau Huppeday 27, no. 3 (August 2007): 140-151, G + J; 27, no. 4 (November 2007): 207-220, G + J. [929.1 ESW NCC]. Articles include an index of names and several reproductions of letters related to pensions for Confederate soldiers from Gaston County.

Clemmer, Len. "Appomattox, April 12, 1865," Footprints in Time, June 2009: 59-61, G + J [929.1 Foo NCC]. Twenty three members of the "Gaston Rangers," Co. H., 49th North Carolina Regiment, paroled at Appomattox.

Ragan, Robert. A series of Gaston Gazette articles about the:
Gaston Blues, Co. H., 37th North Carolina Regiment: March 24, 2002 through June 9, 2002.
Gaston Guards, Co. H., 23rd North Carolina Regiment: January 6, 2002 through February 3, 2002.
Gaston Invincibles, Co. B., 28th North Carolina Regiment: February 10, 2002 through March 17, 2002.
Junior Reserves: August 4, 2002 through September 15, 2002.
Microfilm available at Reference Desk , G.

Lineberger, James Wellington. Letters of a Gaston Ranger. Ed. Hugh Douglas Pitts. [973.781 LIN NCC], G + J, also circulating. Includes personal letters by 2nd Lt. James Wellington Lineberger of the "Gaston Rangers," Co. H., 49th North Carolina Regiment.

Hardy, Michael C. Remembering North Carolina's Confederates. [973.7 HAR NC], circulating copy available. Includes photographs of veterans and monuments in the Piedmont, including Gaston County.

Torrence, Leonidas. "The Road to Gettysburg: The Diary and Letters of Leonidas Torrence of the Gaston Guards." Ed. Haskell Monroe. North Carolina Historical Review 36 (1959): 476-517. [051 NOR NCC], G. Letters from Leonidas Torrence, a member of the "Gaston Guards," Co. H., 23rd North Carolina Regiment. This regiment was previously Co. H., 13th North Carolina Regiment.

Hardy, Michael C. The Thirty-seventh North Carolina Troops: Tar Heels in the Army of Northern Virginia. [973.7 HAR NCC]. G + J, also circulating. Includes information about the "Gaston Blues," Co. H., 37th North Carolina Regiment.

Lincoln County

Black Southerners in Gray. Includes the essay, "Black Confederates in Lincoln County, North Carolina" by Rudolph Young. [973.7 BLA NCC], G + J, circulating copies are available, too.

Lest We Forget!: A Civil War Roster for Lincoln County, North Carolina. [973.7025 LES NCC], G + J, also circulating.

DePriest, Virginia Graham. "Lincoln County Civil War Pensioners 1885-1901," Eswau Huppeday 4, no. 4 (November 1984): 275-281. [929.1 ESW NCC], G + J. Alphabetical list of names.

Robbins, Heather Wright. "Lincoln County Pension Letters," Eswau Huppeday 28, no. 3 (August 2008): 119-132. [929.1 ESW NCC], G + J. Articles include an index of names and several reproductions of letters related to pensions for Confederate soldiers from Lincoln County.

1899 List of Confederate Pensioners, Lincoln County, NC. and 1901 List of Confederate Pensioners, Lincoln County, NC. Pages list name, company, etc.

Roster of Confederate Soldiers in the War Between the States Furnished by Lincoln County, North Carolina, 1861-1865 Digitized version of the original publication.
Lincoln County Historical Association: Confederate Soldiers from Lincoln County Provides the same roster in an Excel file.

Gaston and Lincoln Counties

Allen, Mike. "Confederate Record of S.S. Guardmen from the Gastonia Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy," Eswau Huppeday 15, no. 3 (August 1995): 161-170, G; 15, no. 4 (November 1995): 223-235, G + J; 16, no. 1 (February 1996): 18-24, G + J; 16, no. 2 (May 1996): 79-84, G. [929.1 E NCC]. These all include records of questions answered by former Confederate soldiers from Gaston and Lincoln County.

"Maimed Confederate Veterans," Eswau Huppeday 9, no. 4 (November 1989): 253. [929.1 ESW NCC], G + J.
Spears, Kenneth. "Update to "Maimed Confederate Veterans," Eswau Huppeday 10, no. 2 (May 1990): 93-94. [929.1 ESW NCC], G + J. These articles list Gaston and Lincoln County Confederate soldiers who received artificial limbs from the state of North Carolina after the war.

Phantom Pain: North Carolina's Artificial-Limbs Program for Confederate Veterans. [362.86 WEG NCC], G. This volume includes maimed veterans listed in the two Eswau Huppeday articles listed above, as well as soldiers throughout North Carolina.

"North Carolina Soldiers 1861-1865: Where Did They Come From?" Eswau Huppeday 29, no. 3 (August 2009): 149-171. [929.1 ESW NCC], G + J. List of regiments, companies and nick names of regiments.

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