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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Elisha Hunt

(c. 1834 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 28, from Cleveland County, NC, he enlisted there on 11 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 15th North Carolina Infantry. He was sick in North Carolina in April and May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on 14 September 1862 on South Mountain.

The rest of the War

His father Thomas filed a claim for his final pay of $99.13 in January 1863; it was probably paid in November 1864.

References & notes

His service from Moore1 (in the 49th NC) and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3; some of his records are filed under Company B, 49th North Carolina Infantry.

Birth

c. 1834

Death

09/14/1862; South Mountain, MD

Notes

1 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. III, pp. 399 - 402 [AotW citation 12306]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 34750]

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