While perusing the John J. Wilson letters last week at UNCW, I came across a list of students who attended the “school taught by W. R. Bell from July 13th 1857 to March 17th 1858.” This list was the first time I had seen any indication that Walter Raleigh Bell had been a schoolteacher. Intrigued,… Continue reading Walter Bell: Farmer, Merchant, Teacher, and Soldier