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(c. 1841 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 19 year old farmer living with his sister Drucilla (Smith) and family on their small farm at Gatesville in Gates County, NC. He enlisted there on 20 January 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 33rd North Carolina Infantry on 4 February.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD but died there of wounds on 6 October 1862.
His mother Priscilla filed a claim for his final pay in December 1863.
References & notes
Burial information from the Mt Olivet burial list.1 His service from the Roster 2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.4 He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.5 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
c. 1841; Gates County, NC
Death
10/06/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, MD
1 Farino, Greg, and J. Ronald Pearcey, superintendent, Confederate Soldiers buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 5086]
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 22619]
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 34260]
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 #9.602 [AotW citation 22620]
5 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #204 [AotW citation 34261]