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(1833 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 27 year old farmer on his parent's place at Snow Creek near Statesville in Iredell County, NC. He was conscripted and enlisted at Statesville, NC as a Private in Company D, 7th North Carolina Infantry on 3 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot in his back in action at Harpers Ferry, VA on 13 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to CS General Hospital #18 in Richmond, VA on 28 September and furloughed home on 18 October 1862. He died at home in Statesville of his wounds. His father John L. filed for his final pay on 8 September 1863.
References & notes
Birth
01/10/1833 in NC
Death
11/17/1862; Statesville, NC; burial in Snow Creek Methodist Church Cemetery, Statesville, NC
1 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966- [AotW citation 18340]
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 30261]