My paternal great-great-grandfather, David Land of Wilkes County. Born in March 1825, the youngest child of James & Edith Livingston Land. He was a late-war conscript, and father of seven. He had probably never fired a gun in anger at anyone. At a time when so many were taking to the mountains to avoid service, he reported to Camp Vance at Morganton on Feb.14, 1864. He arrived in Virginia and Company I 13th NC Infantry in time for the beginning of the Overland Campaign. He was promoted to Corporal in October. David was captured on April 2, 1865 "on the Southside Railroad". Sent to the last northern prison camp opened at Hart's Island, NY. he was released on June 19th after taking the Oath of Allegiance. David was provided rail transport probably as far as Wilkesboro. From there he walked to his home in the Brushy Mountains. Family lore says he was "barefoot and barely alive. His first wife died in the early 1870s about the time their oldest, my great-grandfather, came to Washington County, East Tennessee. David remarried in 1874 and fathered a daughter. He applied for a pension in Caldwell County on June 13, 1901, and probably died shortly after. I believe this photo was probably taken in the 1880s or 1890s.