Nathaniel Patterson Rankin

Major Nathaniel Rankin during the War, Nathaniel was Captain of Company I, 5th North Carolina Cavalry. After the battle of New Bern, nathaniel was elected Major of the 26th North Carolina Regiment. He was educated at Davidson College and was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church for many years and lived in Franklin, NC. He was a Mason and in his later years, a Magistrate.