Joseph Phelps

(c. 1845 - 1863)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 15th North Carolina Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
Then living in Bertie County, he enlisted at age 17 in Company A, 15th North Carolina Infantry on 15 July 1862.

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

The remainder of the War:
He died of wounds on 8 January 1863 in Staunton, VA.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Basic information from Moore1. Thanks to Devan Sommerville for scrubbing through Moore and extracting and transcribing the roster data for AotW. Further detail from Gerald Thomas posted to NCGenWeb.

Place of Birth: Northampton County , NC
Death Date: 01/08/1863 Death Place: Staunton, VA

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. 546 - 550 [AotW citation 7519]

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