Hello Tim,
I have been thinking on your assumption that EEC was of the Confederacy
during the Civil War. This was a war that crosses City/Town, County and State
lines. Neighbor against neighbor and Families agains each other. Because he is
listed in the index for North Carolina means his sympathy's were with the South.
He could very well be from the North or one of the border States between the
North and South. Where the State may have sided with the North but he joined in
the Southern State of North Carolina because of his belief. My husbands family
is very Southern in its sympathy's but one family, the father a Union officer
and his 2 sons on the Confederate line for Tennessee. This is a very
difficult war to research your ancestors in because of this. Often times returning
home to find they were not welcome and had to leave because of this.
Here in the USA at the time of Slavery they were called "Negro" but now I
believe the term is "Afro American".
--Candis Sanders--