Undated (06) - Cleveland County Early Days

Authors

Mamie Jones

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Description

This article describes Cleveland County’s experience during the Civil War, focusing on the formation of the Cleveland Guards, the county’s first military company organized in Shelby in April 1861. It lists officers and volunteers, recounts how local women created and presented a silk Confederate flag, and tells how the banner was later captured by a Boston regiment and eventually returned after the war.

Publication Date

2026

City

Shelby, NC

Keywords

Thomas J. Roberts, A. C. McBrayer, W. T. Logan, Plato Durham, O. P. Hoke, James Johnston Pettigrew, William J. Hoke, Sue Logan, Annie Roberts, Mary McBrayer, Bettie Roberts, S. J. McDowell, R. G. A. Love, D. H. Hill, Cleveland Guards, Ladies’ Aid, Shelby

Contributors

Fay Webb Gardner Collection in the Gardner-Webb University Archives

Recommended Citation

Jones, Mamie, "Undated (06) - Cleveland County Early Days" (2026). Cleveland County Early Days Newspaper Column. 64.
https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/fay-webb-gardner-cleveland-county-early-days-newspaper-column/64