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(c. 1843 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was an 18 year old farmer on his parent's place at Lumberton in Robeson County, NC. On 8 February 1862, by then a 19 year old clerk, he enlisted at Lumberton and mustered as 4th Sergeant, Company A, 46th North Carolina Infantry on 16 April.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds in Winchester, VA on 1 (or 3) October 1862.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1843; Robeson County, NC
Death
10/01/1862; Winchester, VA; burial in Stonewall Confederate Cemetery, Winchester, VA
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. 3, pp. 294 - 304 [AotW citation 12775]
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 30262]