Robert B. Woolard

(1800's) Woolard was a member of the Union Army's 1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment, part of two regiments of volunteers from eastern NC joining the Yankees during the Civil War. After many from these regiments were captured by the Confederates, it was discovered that 22 of them had previously served the South so they were hanged as deserters. This action demoralized the remaining members of the two regiments and most of them spent the rest of the War in the relative safety of Union-held Beaufort and Fort Macon.