Charles C. Blacknall-- Part 2: Too Late for First Manassas

The 13th North Carolina took trains north from Richmond to participate in the First Battle of Manassas, arriving on July 22, only to discover they had "arrived too late to participate in the engagement, which secured to us a glorious, complete, and decisive victory."

Blacknall and the  13th were disappointed, but they certainly didn't miss too many battles after that.

Charles Blacknall was born December 4, 1830 at "Beech Spring," a farm near the town of Kittrell in Granville County, N.C..

In 1860, with war looming, he raised a company of volunteers named  the Granville Rifles and drilled them on his hotel grounds.

--Old Secesh