J. H. Upchurch

(? - 1864)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th North Carolina Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He was in Company I.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

The remainder of the War:
Promoted to Corporal, wounded at Gettysburg 1-2 July 1863. Captured at Rappahannock Station, VA in November 1863 and escaped. Promoted to Sergeant and died of wounds received at Cedar Creek on 19 October 1864.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Basic information from Iobst1. Thanks to Devan Sommerville for scrubbing through the volume, extracting and transcribing the roster data for AotW.

Death Date: 10/19/1864 Death Place: Cedar Creek, VA

Notes

1 Iobst, Richard William, and Louis H. Manarin, Wade Lucas, The Bloody Sixth : the Sixth North Carolina Regiment, Confederate States of America, Raleigh: North Carolina Confederate Centennial Commission, 1965, pp. 422 - 448 [AotW citation 6405]

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