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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Alfred Nelson Paul

(c. 1840 - 1863)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old living with his recently widowed father and 7 siblings on their farm in Orange County, NC. He enlisted at Fort Macon, NC on 1 June 1861 and mustered as a Private in the Orange Guards - Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 31 August.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in the arm in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #2 in Richmond, VA on 4 December, transferred to Chimborazo #3 on 16 December, and died there of pneumonia/typhoid fever on 12 January 1863. His father filed for his final pay in March 1863.

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Wilson.1 His service from the Roster 2 and and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1840; Orange County, NC

Death

01/12/1863; Richmond, VA; burial in John Paul Family Cemetery, Cheeks Township, Orange County, NC

Notes

1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9975]

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 10034]

3 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 31487]

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