Duncan McDougald

(1836 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 30th North Carolina Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He and his family came to America in 1839. He enlisted in Company H, 30th North Carolina Infantry on 23 September 1861.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The remainder of the War:
He was mortally wounded in action at Fredericksburg on 13 December 1862 and died of wounds on 20 December near Fredericksburg at age 26 years, 10 months ...

He lived seven days after having undergone the painful operation of an amputation of the left leg. He was in the battles below Richmond and also in the battle of Sharpsburg, where he was taken prisoner — was sent to Ft. Delaware, and kept there for three weeks, then paroled, sent to Richmond and immediately exchanged, and soon after joining his Company received the fatal wound at Fredericksburg.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Basic service information from Moore1. Further detail and the quote above from his death notice in the Fayetteville Observer of 30 March 1863, transcribed by Myrtle Bridges on NC GenWeb. Son of William McDougald of Moore County.

Birth Date: 02/00/1836 Place of Birth: Island of Jura, SCOTLAND
Death Date: 12/20/1862 Death Place: Fredericksburg, 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. 2, pg. 530 [AotW citation 10042]

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