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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John W. Wilfong

(1842 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 49th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From Catawba County, he enlisted in Company I, 49th North Carolina Infantry on 19 March 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was again wounded (place not recorded) in 1864.

References & notes

Basic information from Moore1. A note about his wounding from W.A. Day's True History of Company I, 49th Regiment, North Carolina Troops (1893) online from the North Carolina Digital Collections, State Library. Further details from family genealogists.

Birth

1842

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. III, pg. 421  [AotW citation 12343]