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(c. 1828 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 31 year old farmer with a small place in Martin County, NC. He mustered as Private, Company H, First North Carolina Infantry on 1 February 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the "White House" hospital on the Line farm at Sharpsburg, but died there of wounds before 2 October 1862. He was originally buried "west of George Line's house in his new ground along side of an old white oak tree near his pond."
After the War
He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Service and other details from the Roster.1 Burial detail from Pruitt,2 who has him as W. B. Ayes. Hospital detail from a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862, which has him in the 1st NC Cavalry. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Alexina Williams (-1926) and they had at least 4 children.
Birth
c. 1828; Martin County, NC
Death
09/00/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD
1 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966- [AotW citation 19050]
2 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4542]