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This information is contributed by Jackie Purdy
FOUR CARROLL BROTHERS -- CSA
Luther Rice Carroll
James Thomas Carroll
John Lemuel Carroll
Owen Judson Carroll
Newspaper article from the Raleigh Standard, July 10, 1861
North Carolina Boys
“Our good old State is not yet understood by our neighbors.
We boast not of our chivalry, nor of our F. F. V’s, but we have got the bone and
sinew, and the mind in our men, and the stuff in our soil to make our blessed old
State, second to none of her sisters.”
THE NORFOLK HERALD: had the following----“THERE ARE GIANTS IN THESE DAYS”
“We yesterday gazed with astonishment at the tallest specimen of humanity that we
have ever seen going at large. He was 6 feet 11 inches in height, and otherwise well
proportioned, though only 23 years of age, he looked as he could take a live YANKEE
by the nape of the neck and shake the life out of him in no time at all.
He is the youngest of 3 brothers, all residents of Duplin county, North Carolina, and all
Equaling him in eight. They have come to Norfolk to fight the Yankees, and if that race
of bipeds will only give them a change no doubt these sons of Anak will make them
hear thunder.
These men would, we think, compare favorably with those, which Caleb and Joshua
saw in the land of “Canaan.”
Note: this article was written before the 4th brother Owen Judson Carroll joined the CSA.
JOHN LEMUEL CARROLL
John Lemuel Carroll was born 21 December 1836 in Duplin co., North Carolina, the son of
John Durham Carroll and Zilphia Chesnutt and the Grandson of Jesse Carroll, RS.
John was in the 43rd. North Carolina Regiment.
He was married to Sarah Griselle Mitchell.
John Lemuel died 21 June 1895, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
He was a minister.
John Lemuel was my Great Granduncle. |