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(1835 - 1863)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 23 year old farmer in Orange County, NC. He enlisted in Hillsborough, NC as a Private in Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 16 May 1862.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in the head in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.
The rest of the War
He was captured in action on 14 October 1863 at Bristoe Station, VA and imprisoned at the Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC. He was transferred on 27 October to Point Lookout, MD, and died while a prisoner there on 5 November 1863.
References & notes
Sharpsburg wound information from Wilson.1. His service from his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, and from J.A. Graham's Descriptive Book of the Orange Guards in his Papers.3; also seen as Lorenzo Dunnigan and Dunagan. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
08/01/1835; Orange County, NC
Death
11/05/1863; Point Lookout, MD; burial in Point Lookout Confederate Cemetery, Scotland, MD
1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9969]
2 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 31476]
3 Graham, James Augustus, and H.M. Wagstaff, editor, The James A. Graham Papers, 1861-1884, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1928, p. 285 [AotW citation 31477]