Concord in Cabarrus County, North Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)
St. John's Lutheran Church
Community Sacrifice
Photographed by Don Morfe, August 19, 2014
1. St. John's Lutheran Church Marker
Inscription.
St. John's Lutheran Church. Community Sacrifice. During the Civil War, about two hundred members of St. John’s Lutheran Church served in at least eight Confederate army units. The units included companies in the 8th, 20th, 33rd, 52nd, and 57th North Carolina Infantry regiments, as well as a company in the 1st North Carolina Cavalry. Church members were engaged in at least 194 different skirmishes, battles, and campaigns. These included Manassas, Mechanicsville, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Winchester, Petersburg, and Appomattox Court House, Virginia; Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Charleston, South Carolina; Harpers Ferry, West Virginia; Antietam, Maryland; and numerous battles in the eastern part of North Carolina. The 2nd Regiment Detailed Men, with members of the congregation, served as guards in the prisoner-of-war camp in Salisbury., Approximately a hundred Civil War veterans are buried in the St. John’s cemetery. The congregation lost about one hundred men to wartime deaths. Most of the dead were buried on the battlefield or in prisoner-of-war camps. Here in Cabarrus County, women children, and the elderly found operating their farms and meeting the daily obligations of life stressful with so many of their men away in the army. Sacrifices and challenges on and off the battlefield transformed the St. John’s congregation, and it took the members many years to recover., (sidebar) , St. John’s Lutheran Church was organized by 1745 as Dutch Buffalo Creek Meeting House. The present sanctuary was constructed in 1845. Revolutionary patriots who fought at the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge in North Carolina, Camden in South Carolina, and in several others actions are buried in the older part of the cemetery. The graveyard also contains the remains of pioneers, bishops, pastors, and former slaves. The first full-time Lutheran pastor to North Carolina, German native Adolph Nussmann, is buried here., (captions) , (lower left) Confederate Reunion in front of St. John’s Schoolhouse, ca. 1905 Courtesy Ellen Eich , (upper right) St. John’s Lutheran Church, ca.1880 - Courtesy The St John’s Archive, Major funding for this project was provided by the North Carolina Department of Transportation, through the Transportation Enhancement Program of the Federal Transportation Efficiency Act fir the 21st Century.
During the Civil War, about two hundred members of St. John’s Lutheran Church served in at least eight Confederate army units. The units included companies in the 8th, 20th, 33rd, 52nd, and 57th North Carolina Infantry regiments, as well as a company in the 1st North Carolina Cavalry. Church members were engaged in at least 194 different skirmishes, battles, and campaigns. These included Manassas, Mechanicsville, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Winchester, Petersburg, and Appomattox Court House, Virginia; Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Charleston, South Carolina; Harpers Ferry, West Virginia; Antietam, Maryland; and numerous battles in the eastern part of North Carolina. The 2nd Regiment Detailed Men, with members of the congregation, served as guards in the prisoner-of-war camp in Salisbury.
Approximately a hundred Civil War veterans are buried in the St. John’s cemetery. The congregation lost about one hundred men to wartime deaths. Most of the dead were buried on the battlefield or in prisoner-of-war camps. Here in Cabarrus County, women children, and the elderly found operating their farms and meeting the daily obligations of life stressful with so many of their men away in the army. Sacrifices and challenges on and off the battlefield transformed the St. John’s congregation, and it took the members many years to recover.
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John’s Lutheran Church was organized by 1745 as Dutch Buffalo Creek Meeting House. The present sanctuary was constructed in 1845. Revolutionary patriots who fought at the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge in North Carolina, Camden in South Carolina, and in several others actions are buried in the older part of the cemetery. The graveyard also contains the remains of pioneers, bishops, pastors, and former slaves. The first full-time Lutheran pastor to North Carolina, German native Adolph Nussmann, is buried here.
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(lower left) Confederate Reunion in front of St. John’s Schoolhouse, ca. 1905 Courtesy Ellen Eich
(upper right) St. John’s Lutheran Church, ca.1880 - Courtesy The St John’s Archive
Major funding for this project was provided by the North Carolina Department of Transportation, through the Transportation Enhancement Program of the Federal Transportation Efficiency Act fir the 21st Century.
25.157′ N, 80° 28.511′ W. Marker is in Concord, North Carolina, in Cabarrus County. It is at the intersection of St Johns Church Road and Mt Olive Road (County Route 2416), on the right when traveling north on St Johns Church Road. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 100 St Johns Church Road, Concord NC 28025, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in the Piedmont and in Greater Charlotte. It is also in the American South and specifically in the Upper South. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
Credits. This page was last revised on November 7, 2024. It was originally submitted on September 22, 2014, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. This page has been viewed 3,522 times since then and 77 times this year. Photos:1, 2. submitted on September 22, 2014, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.
