*CSA VET
Isaac W. Landreth
Born: Feb 1838 in Ashe, Nc now Alleghany Cty NC
Died: 30 Jun 1896 in Alleghany, Nc
Married: 16 Nov 1865
Parents: Stephen L. Landreth AND Lucy Swindall
Spouse Elizabeth Malinda Long
Born: Mar 1841 in Grayson, Va
Died: Apr 1918 in Alleghany, Nc
Parents: Emanuel Long and Temperance Lucinda Lawrence

CSA
LANDRETH, ISAAC W., 22, Laborer, CENSUS 1860 AlCC HH#49,
Co. A, 26th NC Inf., Enl. 5/17/61 in Ashe Co., NC, age 23.
Fought at Bern
Pres. until taken POW at Gettysburg 7/3-5/63.
Confined at Fort McHenry, MD, transferred to Fort Delaware 7/10/63, where held until released on oath 2/25/65 when taking the oath.

Union Baptist minister postwar.

Age 32, Farmer, CENSUS 1870 Alleghany Cty

Children
John Calvin Landreth
Born: 14 Aug 1867 in Alleghany, Nc
Died: 14 Aug 1867 in Alleghany, Nc

Mary Ellen Landreth
Born: 1869 in Alleghany, Nc

Thomas William Landreth
Born: 14 Dec 1870 in Amelia, Nc
Died: Apr 1948 in Alleghany, Nc

Drucy Virginia Landreth
Born: 1872 in Nc

Lucy Permelia Landreth Born: 18 Nov 1873 in Elk Creek, Alleghany, Nc
Died: 21 Jul 1943 in Piney Creek, Alleghany, Nc

Isaac Edwin Landreth
Born: 15 Nov 1875 in Elk Creek, Alleghany, Nc
Died: Jul 1964 in Pomona, Los Angeles, Ca

Mazy Elizabeth Landreth
Born: 1877 in Nc
Died: Feb 1972 in Alleghany, Nc

Beatrice Lucinda Landreth
Born: 15 Dec 1879 in Alleghany, Nc
Died: Mar 1940 in Piney Creek, Alleghany, Nc

Samuel Stephen Landreth
Born: Mar 1882 in Alleghany, Nc
Died: 29 Sep 1960 in Ashe, Nc

Robert Truman Landreth
Born: Apr 1884 in Alleghany, Nc
Died: 19 Aug 1971

Rosa Caroline Landreth
Born: 14 Sep 1887 in Alleghany, Nc
Died: Sep 1957 in Custer, Mt

PICKETTS CHARGE
ISAAC survived Picketts Charge at Gettysburg.
One of only 4 men from the Co A 26th NC Inf to survive Pickett's Charge.

CSA VETERAN.
Enlisted Ashe Cty NC for Co A 26th Regmt 1861
Fought at New Bern to Gettysburg 1863
Walked home from Gettysburg after he was released from the army for wounds.

UNION BAPTIST
Union Baptist Minister for 26 years, he opened many churches in area after the war.
Union meant that you supported the Union.

After the War he taught Freed Slaves (MALE) to read.
That was against the law before the war.
He ordained their Ministers, helped them to build churches and helped to protect them during services.

REPUBLICAN
First Republican elected to Raleigh after the CW for NC.
Most NC citizens were democrat: the pro confederacy/pro slavery party.

Republican was Lincoln's party so Isaac must have been very effected by Gettysburg and the war.

Isaac W. Landreth was assigned to Company A, 26th North Carolina Infantry Regiment.
Isaac W. Landreth fought and survived Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg and became a prisoner that day.
He was one of only four soldiers of Company A who survived. After the war, Isaac W. Landreth was a well-known Baptist minister who founded many churches.

Isaac W. Landreth is the son of Stephen L. and Lucy Jane (SWINDALL) Landreth.

He married Elizabeth Malinda Long November 16, 1865 in Allegheny county, North Carolina.
They had at least 15 children.

FROM THE CHALICE AND THE COVENANT by Mark Sexton
1976 WS NC
Pge 5
"When the first session of the NCBA convened in 1873, there were four ordained negro ministers present: Elder Dred A Goins, George Washington Goins, JC Greer and Thomas Jones. All these men were long time residents of the area and ex-slaves who had been emancipated only a few years before. All these men had been ordained at the Shoal Creek Church of the Mountain Union Baptist Association by Elder Isaac Landreth of the Mt Carmel Union Baptist Church. After their ordination, these ministers had been sent out by Elder Landreth and the MUBA to preach to and organize the Negroes of the region into churches. The date of this ordination is unknown but it probably occurred shortly after the organization of the Union Baptist Association in in 1867".

FORT DELAWARE
Fort Delaware is a harbor defense facility, designed by chief engineer Joseph Gilbert Totten and located on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River.
During the American Civil War, the Union used Fort Delaware as a prison for Confederate prisoners of war, political prisoners, federal convicts, and privateer officers.
A three-gun concrete battery, later named Battery Torbert, was built inside the fort in the 1890s and designed by Maj. Charles W. Raymond.
By 1900, the fort was part of the three point concept, working closely with Fort Mott in Pennsville, N.J. and Fort DuPont in Delaware City, Del.
The fort and the island currently belong to the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) and encompasses a living history museum, located in Fort Delaware State Park.

FORT MCHENRY
Fort McHenry, in Baltimore, Maryland, is a coastal star-shaped fort best known for its role in the War of 1812, when it successfully defended Baltimore Harbor from an attack by the British navy in Chesapeake Bay September 13–14, 1814.

It was during the bombardment of the fort that Francis Scott Key was inspired to write "The Star-Spangled Banner," the poem that would eventually be set to the tune of "To Anacreon in Heaven" and become the national anthem of the United States

During the American Civil War the area where Fort McHenry sits served as a military prison, confining both Confederate soldiers, as well as a large number of Maryland political figures who were suspected of being Confederate sympathizers.
The imprisoned included newly elected Baltimore Mayor George William Brown, the city council, and the new police commissioner, George P. Kane, and members of the Maryland General Assembly along with several newspaper editors and owners.
Ironically, Francis Scott Key's grandson, Francis Key Howard, was one of these political detainees.
A drama beginning the famous Supreme Court case involving the night arrest in Baltimore County and imprisonment here of John Merryman and the upholding of his demand for a writ of habeas corpus for release by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney occurred at the gates between Court and Federal Marshals and the commander of Union troops occupying the Fort under orders from President Abraham Lincoln in 1861.

Fort McHenry also served to train artillery at this time; this service is the origin of the Rodman guns presently located and displayed at the fort.