Husband: David LOGAN (Ancestor Chart, Descendant Chart)
Born: ABT 1825 in: Rutherford County, NC Married: 10 APR 1856 in: Cleveland County, NC Died: 5 MAY 1864 in: Spotsylvania County, VA Father: Joseph LOGAN Mother: Jane MCGLAMERY
Wife: Hannah SELF (Ancestor Chart, Descendant Chart)
Born: ABT 1832 in: Rutherford County, NC Died: ABT 1870 in: Cleveland County, NC Father: William SELF Mother: Nancy SCOTT
Children:
1 Name: Andrew Francis LOGAN M Born: 15 MAR 1857 in: Cleveland County, NC Died: 23 JUN 1941 in: Cleveland County, NC Married: 21 NOV 1881 in: Cleveland County, NC Spouse: Jane Louisa PROCTOR
2 Name: Mary E. LOGAN F Born: 17 JUN 1860 in: Cleveland County, NC Died: 29 AUG 1933 in: Cleveland County, NC Married: 28 JUL 1881 in: Cleveland County, NC Spouse: Adam Knox HUNT
3 Name: William F. LOGAN M Born: 12 MAY 1862 in: Cleveland County, NC Died: 27 JAN 1957 in: Morganton, Burke County, NC Married: 25 DEC 1888 in: Burke County, NC Spouse: Mary J. GRADEY
David Logan was a farmer from Cleveland County, North Carolina who was killed during the Civil War in the Battle of the Wilderness on May 5, 1864. He served as a private in Company F of the 55th Regiment of North Carolina troops in the Confederate Army.
David Logan's exact date of birth is unknown, although he was likely born about 1825 based on his age listed in the censuses of 1850 and 1860. He was the son of Joseph Logan and Jane McGlamery who lived in the area of Duncan's Creek in Rutherford County, North Carolina at the time that David was born. In 1841 this area became part of the newly formed Cleveland County, North Carolina. Cleveland County tax records suggest that Joseph Logan and family moved about 1847 to the area of Ward's Creek which was only a few miles to the northeast. In that year Joseph Logan and his sons Philip and David were listed next to each other in the tax records with Joseph being listed as responsible for paying taxes on 300 acres of land on Ward's Creek.
In the 1850 census David Logan was listed as a 25 year old male in the household of his parents Joseph and Jane Logan. Also listed in the household were Philip, a 28 year old male, and Huldah, a 19 year female. Family oral history tells us that Philip was David's brother. Huldah may have been his sister, but we do not have information that would confirm this. It is possible that David may have had other siblings who had already moved away from home by 1850. In the 1840 census Joseph Logan's household included three young males and four young females, although we do not know who they were as the censuses of 1840 and earlier listed only the name of the head of household.
In the year 1853, David Logan is listed in the Cleveland County tax records for the first time as being responsible for paying taxes on land. He is listed as having paid taxes on 100 acres of land valued at 200 dollars. The Cleveland County deed index does not include an entry for David Logan, so if he was the owner of the land it would seem that he either failed to record the deed at the court house, or the land was somehow transferred to him without a deed. It is interesting that at about the same time David is listed as paying taxes on 100 acres, the amount of land that his father Joseph paid taxes on was reduced from 300 acres to 200 acres. And in 1857 Joseph is no longer named in the Cleveland County tax list while David's brother Philip then begins being listed as responsible for taxes on 200 acres. It seems likely that Joseph transferred his land on Ward's Creek to his sons David and Philip.
North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865: A Roster:
David Logan is listed as a Private in Co. F, 55th North Carolina Infantry Regiment.
Resided in Cleveland County and was by occupation a farmer prior to enlisting
in Wake County at age 43, August 20, 1863, for the war.
Killed at Wilderness, Virginia, May 5, 1864.15
The record book of Company F, 55th North Carolina Regiment is preserved in the North Carolina State Archives (Private Collection No. 1131).16 The title page inside the book reads Pay and Clothing and Descriptive Book of Company "F", (Capt. Mull) 55th Regt. N.C. Troops. Opposite the title page is the following inscription:
Captain Peter M. Mull was born July 11, 1832 and died Feb. 12 1921.
He carried this book with him through the Civil War and since has
kept a record of all his soldiers places of residence and deaths, etc.
Mrs. Alice Mull
Newton N.C.
June 16, 1921.
The book dedicates a page to each soldier in the company. Page 120 contains the following information on David Logan:
Logan, David
Age 43 years
Enlisted 20 Aug 1863
Complexion Red eyes blue brown hair
5ft 10 in high occupation Farmer
Killed in the Wilderness 5th May 1864
1st days fight
Nov [? New] State Bounty 50
overcoat & soles shoe
" Jacket pants shirt slips socks
Jan pay [? ] Jan '64 22
Mar 18 '64 pay [? ] Mar '64 22
April 15 Pants
The following text is extracted from the history of the 55th N.C. Regiment written by Lt. Charles M. Cooke who served as adjutant for the regiment. It was published in the book Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War 1861-'654 edited by Walter Clark. The text listed below is the portion of the regiment history which describes May 5, 1864, the day David Logan was killed:
On 4 May, 1864 the [55th N.C.] regiment, Colonel [Alfred .H.] Belo now recovered of his wounds, commanding, left its camp near Orange Court House, and commenced its march to the Wilderness. It was going down the [Orange] Plank road towards Fredericksburg about 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon of the 5th, when it was discovered that the enemy were advancing up the road. Heth's Division was formed into line of battle, not for the purpose of advancing or bringing on an engagement, but as General Lee said to A.P. Hill, to hold the enemy in check until Longstreet's Corps and Anderson's Division of A.P. Hill's Corps should come up.
Davis' Brigade was formed on the left of the road; our regiment was on the right centre of the brigade and on the crest of a small hill or ridge. It was in a dense forest of small trees; the hill in our front sloped gradually to a depression or valley which was a few yards wide, and then there was a gradual incline on the opposite side until it reached a point of about the same altitude as that occupied by us, about 100 yards from our line. We had 340 men, including non-commissioned officers, in our regiment.
About 3:30 o'clock, our skirmish line was driven in and the first line of the Federal forces charged, but they got no further than the crest of the hill in front of us, and were repulsed with great loss; from then until sunset, they charged us with seven successive lines of battle, but we repulsed every one of them. Our line never wavered. The officers and men of the regiment realized that the safety of the army depended upon our holding the enemy in check until the forces left behind could come up, and there was a fixed determination to do it, or to die.
About 6 o'clock the enemy were pressing us so heavily with their successive lines of fresh troops it was thought that they would annihilate us before nightfall, and a conference of the general officiers on the field determined that it would probably become necessary as a last resort, to make a vigorous and impetuous charge upon them with the hope that we might be able to drive them back. Colonel Belo, who was sitting just in the rear of the regiment by the side of a little poplar tree, sent his orderly to the line to the writer of this sketch (C.M. Cooke), instructing him to report to him immediately. I went at once. He then stated to me that the necessity of a charge seemed apparent and that the order for making it would probably soon be given, and he desired that I return to the line and notify the men that they might be prepared for it, and take the command of my own company and also C, which was the flag company, the commanding officier of which had a few moments before been severely wounded, and to see that the flag was kept well to the front, and to make the charge with all the dash that was possible.
I went back to the line and gave the men the information. They expressed hope that it might not be necessary to make the charge, but there was no disposition to shirk the duty if it had been imposed. But the order for the charge was not given, and about sunset the firing had nearly ceased in our front, and Thomas' Georgia Brigade of Wilcox's Division came in and relieved us, and we were sent to the right of the road where we rested for the night. We had held the enemy in check. Not one yard of our line had given away one foot during the three hours the fearful onslaughts had been made upon us, but of the 340 in the regiment, 34 lay dead on the line where we fought and 167 were wounded. The Sergeant of the ambulance corps counted the next day 157 dead Federal soldiers in front of our regiment.
Battle Field
May 7, 1864
My Dear Wife,
I have the pleasure of dropping you a few lines this morning.
The great battle commenced day before yesturday.
We were engaged in the evening and suffered severely.
Through the goodness of God I am spared so far.
A great many of our Co. are wounded.
David Logan was killed and G. White is thought to be.
Some of the wounded are as follows:
Wm. T. Williams, badly, A. McClurd, S. Hoyle, Peter White, David Brendel,
Anderson Self, Robt Self, Peter Buff, David Buff, Phillip Buff,
Aaron Cook, Samuel Wortman, John Ledford - and some others.
Very few of these men have been seen since they were wounded,
so we cannot tell much about them.
The following men yet safe and with the company. Capt. Mull,
Jno. Cline, J. R. Willis, Solomon Willis, Wesley Williams,
John Dickson, Wm. Craige, and others.
We were not engaged yesturday, though there was some hard fighting
and the yankees were driven back.
Firing has been going on this morning and we may go into the fight
again any moment, be not troubled, trust in God.
I must close as the man who caries this is starting.
Yours & c.
Joe13
Listed below is a transcription of a letter from George W. Pearsall who was a member of Company G of the North Carolina 55th Infantry Regiment. In this letter he provides some details of the the North Carolina 55th's involvement in the Battle of the Wilderness on May 5, 1864. As David Logan was also a member of the North Carolina 55th Regiment (Company F), this letter provides insight into the circumstances of the battle in which he died. Although George W. Pearsall survived the Battle of the Wilderness, he was killed less than one month later on June 2, 1864 in the Battle of Cold Harbor.
May the 7, 64
My Dear loved Wife I am now
on the battle field and have
bin evar sens thursday and I am
truly thank to god that I am yet
spaird to drop a fiew lines to the
one that my [? ] hart ake for
while in battle from 2 oclock
thursday untell sunset my love
I no god was with me and I am truly
thankful to him that I am spaird
so far my Dear I sot in one place
and shot my riful 61 times
my co wint in with 30 men and
came out with 8 only and only 2
taken prisner the rest all kiled
and wounded L.B. Price and D.J. Thompson
taken the strength of our regt was
350 and now 120 the enemy charged us
and we had to fall back about sunset
and I got cut off from my com
and got with it again yesterday We
hold all the battle ground now
and I tell you [? hear] is a offul site
the small armes is passing now on
my rite as fast as you [? evar heard reeds]
in a branch it is now about 11 oclock
Saturday and it has bin a contenul
fire evar sens thursday morning
sunrise we have got the best of the
fight so far we have kiled a [? quanty]
of yankees and a good meny of our
men too they are now charging
the yankees and I must close I
will write [? ] god bee with
us all and enable us to meet a
gain soon for christ sake huney
I will say a fiew words more as we
have got still behind brest works it is
near sunset and I hope I shal rest
some to knight for I am broke down
we are about 20 miles from orange
on the plank road I recived your very
kind leter yestaday lying in line of
battle and was glad to hear from you
give my love to [? .. .. and ..
.. .. ..] you will all pray for
me to see you all again soon
G W Pearsall to his loved wife S S Pearsall17
The following is from The Daily Confederate, a Raleigh, N.C. newspaper, dated Friday June 3, 1864:
For the Confederate,
Battle-Field, May 8th, 1864.
Messrs Editors: Please publish the following lists of casualties in
the 55th regiment N.C. Troops, commanded by Lieut. Col. A.H. Belo, in the
battle of May 5th, 1864:
Field and staff - ...
Co.A - ...
...
Co.F - Killed, privates David Logan and John White.
Wounded, privates A McClurd right sholder severely,
W T Williams mortal - since died,
Phillip Buff in shoulder,
David Buff in arm,
Peter Shufford in arm seriously,
L Martin in hand,
R R White in breast seriously,
A Cook hand,
Z Bracket, knee seriously,
Solomon Hoyle hand,
Wm S Workman ditto,
Anderson Self in foot,
John Smith seriously,
John Ledford hand,
Joseph Cornipe in hip,
John S Crow face seriously,
Henry Norman finger.
Missing John Mull,
privates S M Wright, Jesse Tallent.
Total killed, enlisted men 2, wounded 19, missing 3 - aggrgate loss 24.
Co.G - ...
...
Co.K - ...
Recapitulation.
Killed, officers, 1; enlisted men, 32.
Wounded, officers, 3; enlisted men, 138.
Missing, enlisted men, 12. Total loss 181.
A.H. BELO, Lieut. Col. Comd'g.1
Logan, David m. Hannah Self, at the home of her father William
Self, April 10, 1856 by John Whisnant, JP. Reg. June 26,
1856, S. Williams, Clk. p.89.
(Ramey, Cleveland County, North Carolina Marriages, 1851-1868, p.31)19
This certifies that David Logan and
Hannah Self were by me united in
marriage according to the laws of North
Carolina at the dwelling house of
her father (William Self) in Cleaveland
County on the 10th day of April 1856.
John Whisnant, J.P.
Recorded the foregoing certificate June the
26th 1856.
Certified: S. Williams, Clk
(Cleveland County, North Carolina Marriage Records)6
Sworn & subscribed
before me Sept 1st 1869
J Jenkins probt judge
An Inventory
of the property of David & Hannah Logan decd
one mare, three cows, two head of young cattle
one sow and pigs, seven other hogs, five sheep
one small two horse waggon, two saddles, one clock
on loom, four bed steads, & some farming tools
Henry Hoyle Admin
(Source: Cleveland County, North Carolina Record of Accounts, 1868-1891, NC State Archives microfilm C.026.50003, p.24)8
Henry Hoyle admin of David & Hannah Logan deceased
In the matter of }
David & Hannah Logan } In the Probate Court
Deceased } Sept 21st 1869
It appearing to the Court that David &
Hannah Logan late of this County are dead leaving
no last Will and Testament and that Henry Hoyle is
a proper person to obtain letters of admin, and is
hereby appointed administrator of said estate.
He gave bond payable to the State of North Carolina in
the sum of four hundred dollars with T T Price and
William Self surities which bond is approved by the Court.
(Source: Cleveland County, North Carolina Appointment of Executors, 1868-1942, Vol. A & B, NC State Archives microfilm C.026.50026, p.16)5
Henry Hoyle admin of David & Hannah Logan deceased In the matter of Henry Hoyle adminstrator of David & Hannah Logan deceased. Petition of said administrator to sell personal property for cash for reasons set forth in said petition. It is hereby granted the 21st day September 1869. J Jenkins Judge Probate (Source: Cleveland County, North Carolina Appointment of Executors, 1868-1942, Vol. A & B, NC State Archives microfilm C.026.50026, p.16)5
An Account & Return of Henry Hoyle Admr. of David and [Hannah]
Logan Decd of the following disbursements of Said 1state Viz.
Paid C. M. Webb Taxes 1869 $ 2.20
" J. Jenkins Judge Probate (4) 4.00
" Lee & Durham Attrs 4.00
" J. C. Byers 2.00
" Jno Self 3.37
" J. O. Bridges Tax 1870 3.40
" John Devany 1.25
" J. F. Whisnant .50
" Margaret Hoyle 18.00
" V. J. Palmer Medical Act. 10.00
" A. C. Whisnant 2.00
" this receipt .50
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$ 51.--
H. Hoyle Admr.
Sworn to before me Sept 28th 1870
J. Jenkins Judge Probate
(Source: Cleveland County, N. C. Record of Accounts, 1868-1872, Broad River Genealogical Society, August 1987, p.104)7
A Final Settlement with Henry Hoyle Adms of David & Hannah Logan
decd made Octo 5th 1871:
Sale Bill $ 334.06
Debt collected 34.40
Cash on Hands 12.00 $ 380.46
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Disbursements as Follows:
Disbursements returned Sept 28th 70 $ 51.22
Paid Tilford Price 1.50
" Wm Self 5.87
" S. A. Black 1.75
" J. Jenkins Judge Probate 1.40
Comm allowed Adm on $442.20 at 5 pr ct 22.11 83.85
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In hands Adms $ 296.61
Approved J. Jenkins Judge Probate
(Source: Estate Papers of David and Hannah Logan, North Carolina Department of Archives and History)11
(Source2: Cleveland County, N. C. Record of Accounts, 1868-1872, Broad River Genealogical Society, August 1987, p.58-59)7
Mr William Self guardian of Hannah Logans heirs Sir I intend to procession my land adjoining the heirs on the 12th day of August 1874 where you may attend if you think proper meet at my House against Eight o clock in the morning July the 7th 1874 Sarah S Logan (Source: Estate Papers of David and Hannah Logan, North Carolina Department of Archives and History)11
| County | Census Page |
Dwelling | Family | Name | Age | Sex | Color | Profession | Value of Real Estate |
Place of Birth |
| Cleveland, NC | 1424 | 1424 | Joseph Logan | 65 | M | Farmer | 600 | N.C. | ||
| Jane | 55 | F | " | |||||||
| Huldah | 19 | F | " | |||||||
| David | 25 | M | " | |||||||
| Philip | 28 | M | " | |||||||
| Cleveland, NC | 1400 | 1400 | William Self | 40 | M | 125 | N.C. | |||
| Nancy | 48 | F | " | |||||||
| Sally | 25 | F | " | |||||||
| Rosannah | 20 | F | " | |||||||
| Hannah | 18 | F | " | |||||||
| Mary A | 17 | F | " | |||||||
| Elizabeth | 12 | F | " | |||||||
| Melinda | 10 | F | " | |||||||
| William | 9 | M | " | |||||||
| Nancy | 7 | F | " | |||||||
| Eliza J | 5 | F | " | |||||||
| Huldah | 3 | F | " | |||||||
| Joseph | 2 | M | " | |||||||
| John F | 3/12 | M | " |
| County, State |
Dwelling Number |
Family Number |
Name | Age | Sex | Color | Occupation | Value of Real Estate |
Value of Personal Estate |
Place of Birth |
| Cleveland, NC |
780 | 780 | David Logan | 35 | M | Farmer | 350 | 345 | N Carolina | |
| Hannah " | 28 | F | N Carolina | |||||||
| Andrew F " | 3 | M | N Carolina | |||||||
| Nancy " | 2 | F | N Carolina |
| County, State |
Dwelling Number |
Family Number |
Name | Age | Sex | Color | Occupation | Value of Real Estate |
Value of Personal Estate |
Place of Birth |
| Cleveland, NC |
124 | 126 | Self William | 63 | M | W | Farmer | 800 | 300 | N.C. |
| Nancy | 68 | F | W | Keeping House | N.C. | |||||
| Andrew | 13 | M | W | at Home | N.C. | |||||
| Mary | 10 | F | W | " " | N.C. | |||||
| William | 8 | M | W | " " | N.C. |
| Township, County, State |
Dwelling Number |
Family Number |
Name | Color | Sex | Age | Relation | Single | Married | Widowed/ Divorced |
Occupation | Place of Birth |
Father's Place of Birth |
Mother's Place of Birth |
| Township 11, Cleveland, NC |
86 | 86 | Self Nancy | W | F | 77 | W | keeping house | N.C. | N.C. | N.C. | |||
| Logan Andrew F | W | M | 23 | grand-son | 1 | Farmer | N.C. | N.C. | N.C. | |||||
| ---- Mary E | W | F | 20 | grand-daug | 1 | At home | N.C. | N.C. | N.C. | |||||
| ---- William F | W | M | 18 | grand-son | 1 | Farmer | N.C. | N.C. | N.C. |
Petition for the Formation of Sevier County found in the N.C Archives,
General Assembly Session Records, 1844-1845, Box 5 - among the long list
of signatures are David Logan, Philip Logan, and Joseph Logan.
(Source: Bulletin of the Genealogical Society of Old Tryon County, August 1998, p.142)