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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James O. Herring

(c. 1834 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 28, from Sampson County, NC, he was conscripted in Raleigh, NC on 23 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 3rd North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at SHarpsburg on 17 September 1862 and died soon after in the hands of the enemy.

The rest of the War

His name appears on a list of paroled prisoners at Sharpsburg, but no other prisoner of war or hospital records found.

References & notes

His service from Moore, 1 who has him as James O. Hering, and killed outright at Sharpsburg, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1834

Death

09/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 1, pp. 106 - 107 [AotW citation 6118]

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