Jesse D. Helms

(1843 - 1920)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 15th North Carolina Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He was in Company B.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was wounded in the left leg and captured in action on South Mountain at Crampton's Gap on 14 September 1862.

The remainder of the War:
He returned to duty in March 1863.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Basic information from Moore1. Additional roster details compiled by Julie Hampton Ganis. Thanks to Devan Sommerville for scrubbing through Moore and extracting and transcribing the roster data for AotW.

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. 551 - 554 [AotW citation 7481]

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