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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Malcolm J. McPhail

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farmer on his parent's place at Summerville (now Lillington) in Harnett County, NC. He enlisted at Carthage in Moore County on 7 March 1862 as a Private in Company D, 48th North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was briefly in CS General Hospital #10 in Richmond, VA on 7 October 1862, then furloughed home. He died of wounds in the Pettigrew General Hospital in Raleigh, NC on 27 October 1862. His father (Archibald) Alexander filed for his final pay in February 1863.

References & notes

His service from Moore,1 as M.J. McPhails with death on 7 December 1862, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1840; Cumberland County, NC

Death

10/27/1862; Raleigh, NC

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. 3, pp. 369 - 371 [AotW citation 6474]

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 30259]

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