The Beavers Boys Letters
History of the 6th North Carolina State Troops The Beavers Boys : Letters from Co. I, 6 th N.C.S.T as compiled by Ernest Dollar Go directly to letter <1> <2> <3> <4> <5> <6> < 7> <8> <9> <10> <11> <12> <13> <14> <15> <16> <17> < 18> <19> INTRODUCTION The following letters were written by two brothers James Sidney Beavers and his brother G.T. Beaves to their family from the ranks of the Cedar Fork Rifles in the Confederate Army. They are in the collection of Isham Sims Upchurch who married the sister of the brothers, Mary, on Dec. 23, 1851. James, the older of the two, was born in 1835. Strangely enough his tombstone tells us something of his life before his enlistment in Wake County on May 28, 1861. Its says that he was excommunicated from Mt. Pisgah Church for opposing white and black equality. A very strange story for a southerner to ha