Contributed by: Glenn Fields The Confederate Sutton Brothers My great-great-great grandfather, Benjamin Sutton was born in 1795 in Dobbs County, North Carolina. He bought land in the White Hall (Seven Springs) vacinity, worked hard and amassed a large amount of land in Wayne, Lenoir and Craven counties. He was married three times and was the father to twenty-one children. Eight of his sons served in the Confederate Army and one served in the home guard. Four of them did not survive. One was killed in battle, two died of disease and one died from wounds received in battle and from confinement as a Yankee prisoner of war. The five that survived returned home to live out the rest of their lives in the area. Benjamin Sutton died in 1864 and is buried about a mile northeast of Seven Springs on Alice Warters Road at the Lenoir/Wayne county line. Below is a record of his sons’ service to their country, the Confederate States of America. Daniel Sutton, Private, resided in Wayne County, North Carolina. He served first in Co. C 8th Battalion North Carolina Partisan Rangers and was later transferred to Co. D 66th North Carolina Infantry Regiment. He was captured at Moseley Hall (now LaGrange), North Carolina and was transferred to Harts Island, NY. He took the oath of allegiance to the United States and was released. |