Recent living history photos.

New photos have been added to our flickr account from the living history we did for the Heritage Homeschoolers in Avery County. Click on our flickr account below. Thanks to Dr. Smith for taking and submitting these.

Next meeting

The Col. John B. Palmer Camp 1946 and the Martha Reid Silver Confederate Memorial Association will hold their monthly meeting at 6:30 pm at the Town Center in Burnsville. Everyone is invited to attend. At this month’s meeting Lt. Div. Commander Danny Bolick will be speaking about observation balloons used during the war.

Round Table tonight

Folks – the living history this past weekend for the Heritage Homeschoolers went great!! Picture will be posted soon.

Tonight is the Avery County and the Civil War Round Table discussion. It is at the Avery-Morrison Public Library at 6:30 pm. Everyone is invited and please bring a friend.

Lost soldiers

Greetings folks! Here is our next list of men who served in the Confederate Army from the Toe River Valley area that we do not know where their burial site is located? Any help? These men were all from Yancey County.

Presley D. Blankenship Lt.
John Hensley 1st Lt.
William A. Ray 1st Lt.
Jackson Allen Pvt.
William G. Angel Pvt.
Charles Austin Pvt.
Edward C. Austin Pvt.
James Austin Pvt.
William S. Baker Pvt.
R. H. W. Barker Pvt.
George L. Beaver Pvt.
J. H. Benfield Pvt.
George Berger Pvt.
James Biggs Pvt.
John B. Blankenship Pvt.
John W. Boone Pvt.
Jeremiah Brown Pvt.