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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Elijah Carpenter

(c. 1836 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 24 year old farmer on his recently-widower father George's place in Gaston County, NC (there were 4 other Carpenter families farming nearby). He enlisted there on 11 June 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, First North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His father filed for his final pay in April 1863.

References & notes

His service from Nixon1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1836

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Nixon, Alfred, and WJ Hoke Camp, UCV, Roster of Confederate Soldiers ... Lincoln County, North Carolina, Lincolnton (NC): Journal Print, 1905, pg. 6 [AotW citation 12258]

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 31555]

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