Fields A. Hawkins

A farmer from Mecklenburg County, he enlisted at age 20 in the unit that became Company B, 13th North Carolina Infantry on 20 May 1861 at Ranalsburg. He was wounded at Williamsburg, VA in May 1862.

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

His right leg was amputated just below the knee by Surgeon McFadden (?) on 18 September. He was hospitalized in Farmville and Richmond, VA, and furloughed from November 1862. He was in Richmond in April 1864 and the CSA General Hospital in Charlottesville, VA in May, and then to General Hospital #24 in Richmond by July, by way of hospitals in Lynchburg, Staunton, and Farmville.

He used an artificial leg, and was working in a cotton mill in the early 20th Century.

Basic information from Moore1, who also has him wounded at Chancellorsville (not possible). Details from his Compiled Service Records at the National Archives. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to Tony Horwitz in Confederates in the Attic for the pointer to him.

05/12/1841 in NC

08/19/1910; burial in Hair Cemetery, Fayetteville, NC