The Feb. 6, 2008 Time-News had an article about Alamance County's role in the Civil War.
The county was more industrialized than most in the South because of the fast-growing textile industry and railroads.
Charles Irons, an Elon University professor has found that 1,420 men served in the Confederate military and that the early enlistees tended to be wealthy and from slave-holding families. However, poorer ones entered service after 1862 when the Confederacy started a draft.
According to Irons, "It is very clear that men in Alamance County fought because they had to, not in general because they wanted to."
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
