David T. Rooker

Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th North Carolina Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
From Halifax County, he enlisted on 21 May 1861 in Company A, 14th North Carolina Infantry.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He died on 15 September 1862.

The remainder of the War:
Originally buried "on west side of and in the cemetery at Frederick". Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Burial information from Pruett1, who lists him in the 5th North Carolina (no Rooker found in that Regiment). Service details from Moore2.

Death Date: 09/15/1862 Death Place: Frederick, MD Burial Place: Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

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 4940]

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