"Doc" Edd Little, Jr.
March 2008
Photo by Mary Hamilton
This is Doctor Edd Little, Jr. at sundown at historic Bentonville Battleground in Johnston County, NC. The occasion was the annual commemoration of the March 1865 battle there. Born in 1954 in Newark NJ, Edwin P. Little, Jr. graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, where he started playing banjo. He then earned his MD at med school in Philly (where he stopped banjo- too little time!). Doc then served his residency residency in Johnstown, PA, of flood fame.
He and his wife moved to Pink Hill, Lenoir County in rural eastern North Carolina in 1983 and now live in the nearby community of Deep Run. As a general practicioner, Doc has been in family practice in the same building ever since. He's been married to Nancy almost 30 yrs, with 2 children- Eddie,28, and Amber, 25- one grandchild by each.
Doc has been re-enacting since 1991- same unit,
Cape Fear Living History Society, the whole time. His interest in Civil War dates from his 15th birthday, when his dad said "when he was your age, your great-grandfather was in a trench in front of Petersburg" (Alonzo W. Little, 40th NJVI).
As a reenactor, Doc has been in a Twilight Zone TV special (playing a Federal bugler),
Gods and Generals (as a Confederate sniper, "I shot at myself as a charging Federal infantryman"). Doc also appeared in the film at the Manassas visitor's center - "As well as all the stuff the Hucks have been in."
"I first played period music back in 1973, when I played
Marching Through Georgia with Dad - one of the first songs I learned on the banjo." Doc also plays the trumpet and bugle.