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From: Crilley <>
Subject: Addendum to Buffaloe Soldiers
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 98 14:40:43 CDT


Marilyn Livingston provided some additional information about the Buffaloe
Soldiers that Mac Bell's column (sent to the List 7/19/98). We'd like to
gather more information like this for our Bertie County Civil War page.

Before 1864, Buffaloe Soldiers were Indians (thus the name).
The first black regiments came into being from Dec 11, 1863 to Feb, 1864,
and 55 Negroes made up the NC Colored regiment.

Before this the "Buffaloes" (Indian) were hunted and conscripted for the
Confederate Army.

Family sources say that one of the Hoggards was shot in the back in front of
his wife and five children because he refused to fight for the Confederacy.

Captain Bower of the Confederacy was called the Buffaloe persecutor by
Captain Hoggard (Union). Capt. Hoggard was captured by Capt Bower and Capt
Bower referred to him as "Chieftain of the Buffaloe Soldiers". Capt Hoggard
was able to escape.

At the first try at exploding torpedos on the Albemarle, JOHN W. LLOYD,
CHARLES BALDWIN, ALEXANDER CRAWFORD, JOHN LAVERTY and BENJIMAN LLOYD from
the UNION gunboat Wyalusing, set charges in the Roanoke River. This first
attempt didn't succeed. Hoggard's company hid out in Bertie for almost 6 weeks.

On May 31, the crew of the gunboad Whitehead on the Albermarle sound at the
mouth of the Cashie River sited two men in a canoe, silently gliding down
the river. The Whitehead took the two men aboard.

CHARLES C. BARNEYCASTLE, CALVIN HOGGARD, Johnson's Company did sink the
Ironclad.

There is no further record of Charles Barneycastle, although five of his
children were apprenticed out in Bertie County.

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