(1839 - 1900)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A cabinet maker, probably in Hillsborough before the War, he enlisted in Company G on 20 April 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the arm in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.
The rest of the War
He was wounded again in action, on 14 October 1863 at Bristoe Station, VA and on 5 May 1864 at the Wilderness, VA. He was captured on 2 April 1865 at Petersburg, VA and held at Point Lookout, MD until he took the Oath of Allegiance on 10 June 1865.
References & notes
Birth
03/24/1839; Hillsborough, NC
Death
04/17/1900; Hillsborough, NC; burial in Hillsborough Town Cemetery, Hillsborough, NC
1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9968]
2 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966-, Vol. VIII [AotW citation 10024]