Susie Carson has a column in the Wilmington Star News called "A Bit of History" and ran a three part series back in Jan-Feb 2007 on the memories of Stephen "Jack" Clemmons, who listened to his dad and friends recounting the tales of the old days while growing up.
Mr. Clemmons grew up in the thirties, before TV and even before the radio had much to offer. Every evening, his dad and friends would get together "with a bottle of country elixir or some wine and talk about the old days....often the talk would drift to tales about the Civil War."
Most had relatives who fought in "The War of Northern Aggression. For some reason, I soaked up the stories, and these stories stayed with me for a lifetime."
One man's father was Capt. Galloway whose men protected the entrance to Cape Fear, Lockwood's Folly River and the southern shoreline of Brunswick County. They were not regular soldiers.
More to Come. --Old Blockade-R
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
