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Confederate (CSA)

Captain

Nicholas Biddle Gibbon

(1837 - 1917)

Home State: North Carolina

Education: Je?erson Medical College

Branch of Service: Staff

Unit: Branch's Brigade

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, First North Carolina (Bethel) Infantry, date not given. He was appointed Captain and Assistant Commissary (ACS), 28th North Carolina Infantry on 18 October 1861. He was assigned as ACS to General Branch on 5 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was on Branch's staff at Sharpsburg.

The rest of the War

He moved to General Lane's staff to January 1863. He was assigned as ACS to General Wilcox 24 August 1863. He was in a detachment from the Army of Northern Virginia in February 1865 chasing deserters in North Carolina.

References & notes

Service from Krick.1 He was brother of Federal General John Gibbon.

Birth

11/28/1837; Philadelphia, PA

Death

10/17/1917; Mallard Creek, NC; burial in Sugaw Creek Presbyterian, Charlotte, NC

Notes

1 Krick, Robert E.L., Staff Officers in Gray; A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003, pg. 136 [AotW citation 17548]

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