A.S. Webb Jr. served in the confederate army as 3rd Lietenant (Company G) and Adjutant (Company K) in the 44th N.C. Reg. C.S.A. with his brother Richard. He was captured near Petersburg, VA, and held at Fort Delaware during the war. Afterwards, he married Annabella Moore, and had two children. He moved to Warren County where he served as Justice of the Peace, town commissioner in Ridgeway, NC in 1872, and chairman of the county board of education in 1901. He died there, but is buried with his wife at Oakwood Historic Cemetery in Raleigh, NC. A picture of A.S. Webb Jr. can be found in the book "Our Webb Kin of Dixie" by William James Webb, 1940.
Sources
1) Field and Staff of the 44th NC, 44th Regiment NC Troops Descendants Association, http://www.angelfire.com/nc2/ku4jz/civilwar/44thnc/staff/index.html
2) Webb Collection, NC Department of Archives and History http://mars.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/logicrouter/servlet/LogicRouter?PAGE=object&OUTPUTXSL=object.xsl&pm_RC=REPOSC2DB&pm_OI=13147&pm_GT=Y&pm_IAC=Y&api_1=GET_OBJECT_XML&num_result=18
3) Lee's Tar Heels: The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade, by Earl J. Hess, UNC Press, 2002
4) Inventory of the Webb Family Papers, 1795-1960, Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/w/Webb_Family.html#d0e103
5) Branson's NC Business Directory, 1872
6) Branson's NC Business Directory, 1901
7) Ancestry.com free search of North Carolina Death Certificates, 1909-1975 obtained at http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=ROOT_CATEGORY&rank=1&new=1&so=3&MSAV=0&msT=1&gss=ms_f-2&gsfn=Alexander+S&gsln=Webb&_81004030=1928
8) Elon University "Other Souths" project, obtained at http://idd.elon.edu/projects/othersouths/1860_csr/detail_1860_csr1.php?&Smilitary_id=1295
9) Historic Oakwood Cemetery website
http://historicoakwood.com/burial_dtl.asp?id=15934
A.S. Webb Jr. served in the confederate army as 3rd Lietenant (Company G) and Adjutant (Company K) in the 44th N.C. Reg. C.S.A. with his brother Richard. He was captured near Petersburg, VA, and held at Fort Delaware during the war. Afterwards, he married Annabella Moore, and had two children. He moved to Warren County where he served as Justice of the Peace, town commissioner in Ridgeway, NC in 1872, and chairman of the county board of education in 1901. He died there, but is buried with his wife at Oakwood Historic Cemetery in Raleigh, NC. A picture of A.S. Webb Jr. can be found in the book "Our Webb Kin of Dixie" by William James Webb, 1940.
Sources
1) Field and Staff of the 44th NC, 44th Regiment NC Troops Descendants Association, http://www.angelfire.com/nc2/ku4jz/civilwar/44thnc/staff/index.html
2) Webb Collection, NC Department of Archives and History http://mars.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/logicrouter/servlet/LogicRouter?PAGE=object&OUTPUTXSL=object.xsl&pm_RC=REPOSC2DB&pm_OI=13147&pm_GT=Y&pm_IAC=Y&api_1=GET_OBJECT_XML&num_result=18
3) Lee's Tar Heels: The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade, by Earl J. Hess, UNC Press, 2002
4) Inventory of the Webb Family Papers, 1795-1960, Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/w/Webb_Family.html#d0e103
5) Branson's NC Business Directory, 1872
6) Branson's NC Business Directory, 1901
7) Ancestry.com free search of North Carolina Death Certificates, 1909-1975 obtained at http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=ROOT_CATEGORY&rank=1&new=1&so=3&MSAV=0&msT=1&gss=ms_f-2&gsfn=Alexander+S&gsln=Webb&_81004030=1928
8) Elon University "Other Souths" project, obtained at http://idd.elon.edu/projects/othersouths/1860_csr/detail_1860_csr1.php?&Smilitary_id=1295
9) Historic Oakwood Cemetery website
http://historicoakwood.com/burial_dtl.asp?id=15934
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