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(c. 1843 - 1863)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Going by Henry, in 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his parents and 6 siblings on their small farm in Wake County, NC. He was conscripted in Raleigh, NC on 15 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 3rd North Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD on 10 September, left behind, and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September then a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, when was sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was in a hospital in Lynchburg, VA in December 1862 but was back with his company by the end of the month.
He was wounded at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and died in a field hospital there of wounds on 7 July.
His father Tyrell field a claim for his final pay in May 1864.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1843; Wake County, NC
Death
07/07/1863; Gettysburg, PA
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. 114 - 117 [AotW citation 6181]
2 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 34478]
3 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: #277 [AotW citation 34479]