W. R. (William R.) Bond

Born in Halifax, North Carolina, in 1839, William Robert Bond earned an A.B. degree from the University of North Carolina in 1861 before entering the Confederate Army. He served in Company F of the Forty-third North Carolina Regiment, later became aide-de-camp to General Junius Daniel, and eventually held the rank of captain. Bond was badly wounded at Gettysburg, captured during the retreat, and remained a prisoner for the rest of the war.

After the war, Bond became known as an author with a strong interest in defending the historical record as he saw it. His best-known work, Pickett or Pettigrew?, argued that General James Pettigrew's North Carolinians had advanced farther than George Pickett's Virginians at Gettysburg, a question that drew real attention in its day. He also wrote a concise account of Halifax County for In the Coal and Iron Counties of North Carolina.

In 1872, Bond married Sarah Elizabeth Hall, and the couple lived at Aldin, a plantation house in Scotland Neck that he inherited from family. Sources agree that they had no children. I couldn't confirm a reliable portrait image of him from the pages I found, so no profile image is included.