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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Paul Safrit

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From Cabarrus County, he enlisted there as Private, Company B, 7th North Carolina Infantry on 22 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds at a field hospital near Sharpsburg, probably later in September 1862. He was originally buried on the field at Sharpsburg at the "the northern edge of Stephen Grove's woods" and probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett,1 as Paul Sanford. His service from the Roster.2

Birth

c. 1839; Cabarrus County, NC

Death

09/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in 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 4947]

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 24758]

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