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Confederate (CSV)

Captain

Benjamin F. Atwood

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an 18 year old farmer living with his widowed mother Mary and 4 siblings at Salem in Forsyth County, NC. He served in Company D, 21st NC Infantry in 1861. He was a 19 year old student when he was elected 1st Lieutenant, Company K, 48th Infantry on 12 March 1862. He was promoted to Captain on 3 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the right thigh and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 27 September 1862 in a Federal field hospital on or near the battlefield.

References & notes

His service from Moore1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Death detail also in a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1843; Forsyth County, NC

Death

09/27/1862; 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. 3, pp. 390 - 391 [AotW citation 6556]

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 30071]

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