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(c. 1836 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 24 year old farm worker on his mother's place at Scotland Neck in Halifax County, NC. A conscript, he mustered as a Private in Company K, First North Carolina Infantry on 15 July 1862 in Raleigh, his age recorded as 30 years.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by gunshot and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was paroled on 27 September (or 3 October) and admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on the 22nd, but died of wounds there on 2 November 1862. He had in his possession only a $5 Confederate note. He was originally buried "on west side of and in [Mt. Olivet] cemetery at Frederick."
After the War
He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Burial information from Pruett.1 Service and other details from the Roster,2 as B.W. Bell, and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.4 Personal details from the US Census of 1860. He is listed among the Confederate soldiers buried at Mt. Olivet and may still be there (via Findagrave).
Birth
c. 1836 in Halifax County
Death
11/02/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD
1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4557]
2 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 19079]
3 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 30250]
4 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #5.271 [AotW citation 30251]