(1826 - 1864)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In the 1850 Federal Census he was a 24 year old single lawyer in Davie, NC. From Rowan County, he was speaker of the NC House of Commons 1860-61. By April 1862 he was First Lieutenant of Company B.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was promoted Captain 1 October 1862. Killed in action 5 May 1864.
References & notes
Birth
1826; Mount Vernon, NC
Death
05/05/1864; The Wilderness, 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 12779]