Robeson County NcArchives Military Records.....Twins, Confederate 
 
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Oldest Confederate Twins in Robeson County, NC
From the Confederate Veteran Magazine
Vol. XXIV, Pg. 524
 
A Double Golden Wedding
 
The oldest Confederate twins, D.A. and D.C. Buie, of North Carolina, at the 
age of eighty-three, have celebrated the fiftieh anniversary of their 
weddings.  On August 22, 1916, at the home of D.A. Buie, in Robeson County, 
NC, an old-fashioned wedding dinner was served to the same guests who attended 
the wedding entertainments of fift years ago.  The table was decorated in 
white and gold, and two brides' cakes, with the dates "1866-1916" in gold 
icing, wre but by the brides.  Friends and relatives called throught the 
afternoon, and many letters and remembrances were received from old-time 
friends and new, even from the little children in the neighborhood. 
 
This is doubtless the first instance of twin brothers living to celebrate 
their golden wedding anniversary.  A sketch of them as twin Confederate 
soldiers appeared in the Veteran for August 1915, page 378.  One married in 
June and the other in September, 1866, the happy brides being Misses Kate 
McGeachy, of St. Paul, and Susan Salmon.
 
Faithful "Uncle Jack," nearly eighty-three, was an important personage at the 
celebration, which was also a golden anniversary for him, as he had lived in 
sight of the Buie home ever since the war and had never dreamed of leaving his 
master when he was set free.  All honor to him!
 
 
Daniel A. Buie was a private in the 56th North Carolina Artillery
Daniel C. Buie was a sergeant in the 3rd North Carolina Artillery

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