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Please take a few moments of your Day to think and remember those that have fought for us and the Families of those that lost love ones fighting for us.

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Both of my Great grandfathers served in

THE CIVIL WAR

  :JAMES W. BLANKS , Private

 Born in Robeson County and was by occupation a farmer prior to enlisting in Robeson County at age 18, March 10, 1862.

 April 21, 1862. Mustered into state service at Wilmington and assigned to the 51st Regiment N.C. Company F.

 Was wounded in the shoulder at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. Returned to active duty on June 23. Present and accounted for through December, 1864. Survived the war.

  HINSON REVELS, Private

Don't have much information about Hinson Revels. His wife drew pension from his service in this Company

COMPANY F, 51ST REGIMENT N.C. TROOPS

The company, known as the "Ashpole True Boys," was raised in Robeson County and enlisted at Lumberton on March 10, 1862. It was mustered into state service at Wilmington on April 21, 1862, and assigned to the 51ST Regiment N.C. Troops as Company F. After joining the regiment the company functioned as a part of the regiment, and its history for the remainder of the war is reported as a part of the regimental history.

CAPTAINS LIEUTENANTS

Alfred B. Walter Andrew C. Fulmore Jacob W. Hartman

William Stokes Norment Gilbert P. Higley

NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND PRIVATES

 

D.J. Alfin … Jessie E. Baker … Noah Barber … Frederick Bass … Archibald Baxley … Henry J. Baxley … Henry L.

Baxley … Miles S. Baxley … Peter D. Baxley … William H. Baxley … James W. Blanks … James W. Blount …

Jackson Boon … William Boon … Jesse A. Brewer … John C. Brewer … Richard Brewer …William Brewer …

Alexander B. Brigman … Wellington Brigman … Charles B. Bullock … Henry J. Bullock … Jesse Bullock … William

Butler … Elijah Byrd … Joshua Byrd … Samuel Clements … Leroy R. Daniels … Robert Dees … George Douglas …

James E. Douglass … Davidson Evans … Michael Evans … Daniel A. Faulk … James C. Faulk … Faulkner Floyd …

Memory J. Floyd … Thomas Ford … Andrew J. Goodson … Charles P. Goodson … Stephen Grantham … James

Grimsley … D.J. Hair … Hugh Hair … Robert Hair … Dougald Hammonds … Charles T. Harrington … John E.

Hartman … Bennet J. Hayes … Levi C. Hayes … Hiram G. Hazlewood … Jepsey Henderson … Oliver Herring …

Benjamin Hodge…Mathew Hodge … Thomas Huggins … William P. Humphrey … Wright Israel … Hugh J. Jolly …

Alvi Jones … Jesse B. Jones … George W. Joyner … Meredith Joyner … Stephen Lock … James A. Locuss …

Franklin M. McDonald …Neill B. McLean … Daniel B. McLellan … William B. McLellan … George Mincey …

Kenneth T. Morgan … Abraham Morris … James M. Morris … Robert Morris … John R. Musslewhite … Rhodes

Musslewhite … Wiley M. Musslewhite … W.A. Norman … Willis P. Odum … William Oxendine … David Page …

John J. Page … William M. Palmer … William H. Parham … Anson B. Pernell … James B. Pittman … Bryant Pridgeon

… Calvin Ratley … Joseph Ratley … Eli Revels … Henry Revels … Hinson Revels … Jonathan Revels … William S.

Rodgers … George A. Sparkman … William P. Sparkman … Aikin Spivey … Henry Spivey … John Q. Spivey …

Lewis J. Spivey … Samuel Spivey … D.J. Sugard … David D. Taylor … Stephen Taylor … Floyd Townsend …

Nicholas Tyner …William Tyner … Lucas Walters … Samuel D. Watson

 

>"Ashpole True Boys" Company F - 51st Regiment


 

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WORLD WAR II

A cousin lost his life at sea in WWII.

Edwin Canady MoMM1 13-Aug-1944FLIER (SS-250)Sunk Balabac Strait near Mantangule .

Wall of Remembrance--------"Lest They Be Forgotten ... "

Shipmates on Eternal Patrol in USS FLIER (SS-250):

A.J. Abrahamson, MoMm2 / Victor J. Anderson, TM2 / Herbert A. Baehr, ENS / George J. Banchero, MoMM2 / Clyde Banks, CK3 / Paul F. Barron, RM2 / William H. Bivens, S1 / Thomas L. Bohn, EM3 / Ervin A. Borlick, MoMM1 / William J. Brooks, MoMMC / Elton S. Brubaker, F1 / Edwin Canady, MoMM1 /John E. Casey, LT / Christian J. Christensen, S1 / Charles W. Clawson, S1 / Roland J. Cosgrove, TM2 / Charles L. Courtright, S1 / William F. Cowhey, EM1 / John W. Cowie, EM3 / Robert A. Cushman, MoMM2 / Waite H. Daggy, MoMM3 / Peter A. Daros, MoMM1 / Thomas A. Donovan, TM2 / Walter E. Dorriscott, YN2 / Earle W. Dressell, QM2 / James E. Elder, YN2 / Harry G. Ericson, EM3 / Frank W. Falowski, EM3 / Fred E. Fender, MoMM1 / Bernard V. Fite, RM3 / Walter D. Freeman, S1 / Peter A. Gaideczka, PhM1 / Joseph J. Galinac, GM3 / Clyde A. Gerber, TM1 / Melvin G. Getchell, BK3 / Joseph W. Grimshaw, MoMM2 / Kenneth L. Gwinn, TMC / Gale W. Hardy, BM2 / Eugene W. Heller, S1 / Harry S. Holtyn, MoMM2 / Edgar W. Hudson, MoMMC / Sol Kantor, TM3 / Oliver W. Kisamore, MoMM3 / Walter J. Klock, RMC / Paul Knapp, LT / Joseph W. Kucinski, EM1 / George R. Laderbush, TM2 / Richard A. Lambert, TM3 / James Leroy, MoMM1 / Boyd O. Lindeman, TM1 / Gerald F. Madeo, F2 / P.S. Mayer, ENS / Edward H. McCoy, S1 / Vernon C. McLane, MoMM3 / Herbert a. Miner, ENS / Vernon L. Moench, S1 / Victor J. Murawski, F1 / Harvey L. Myers, EM1 / Joseph G. Nicholson, TM3 / David H. Nordhof, RM2 / Charles W. Parker, EM1 / Chester Payne, S2 / George W. Phillips, Jr., MoMM3 / Mason Poole, EMC / Charles D. Pope, GMC / Kit J. Pourciau, S1 / W.L. Reynolds, LTjg / Michael N. Ricciardelli, MoMM1 / Robert C. Rose, SM1 / Donald N. See, F1 / Alvin L. Skow, SC3 / James E. Snyder, MoMMC / Jerrold C. Taylor, EM1 / John C. Turner, SM1 /Paul A. Vest, MoMM2 / James F. Vogt, RT2 / Lucius P. Wall, TM1 / James E. Westmoreland, SC1 ....

Sailors, Rest Your Oars!

A cousin who survived Pearl Harbor

T/SGT. Wm. P. Revels

Cousin Revels has told me many stories about the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He said, "I ask the Lord to take care of me and he did just that and I will serve him until I die". A Retired Master Sgt. The Robesonian page 5 Feb 14, 1958 T/SGT. WILLIAM P. REVELS has retired from the U.S. Air Force after 22 years of ser- vice and plans to open a photo- graphic studio near St. Pauls shortly. He is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Revels of Lumberton, Route 3. He enlisted in 1933 and except for a brief period between enlistments before1940 has serv- ed continuously. After his 1940 enlistment he was assigned to the Coast Artillery in Honolulu and was there when Pearl Harbor was attacked and re- mained until 1945 when he went to Okinawa. Re - enlisting (in the Air Force) he went to Pope Field and became Photo Lab chief. Since 1954 he has been at Shaw AFB and Foster AFB. Sergeant Revels holds numerous medals and a review was held in his honor on his retirement.

Retired Master Sgt. William P. Revels died in a traffic accident Dec. 16, 2002.

 

 

My Brother

Airman 1ST Class Willie Glen Blanks

12/11/1937-11/06/1997

Private Burnice Blanks

05/03/1938-11/07/2005

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My Brother-in-Laws

Airman Herman Eugene Barnhill - 10/04/1937 - 01/06/1990 and Private Ronald J. Barnhill who served in Vietnam

 

 

 

 

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