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(1834 - 1912)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 25 year old school teacher living with his parents and 3 siblings on the family farm in Salisbury, Rowan County, NC. He enlisted at Fort Macon, NC on 20 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 20 June.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was back with his company by November 1862. He was promoted to Corporal on 18 December 1863 and was wounded again, in the Wilderness, VA on 5 May 1864. He was appointed First Sergeant in August, but reduced again to Corporal in December. He deserted to the enemy on 18 January 1865 ad took an oath of allegiance on 24 January in Washington, DC.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer at Gold Hill in Rowan County.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910, also as Wiley Klutts.
Birth
03/13/1834; Rowan County, NC
Death
02/15/1912; Rowan County, NC; burial in Salisbury, NC
1 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 32094]