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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John B. Tilley

(c. 1834 - 1863)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 28, he was conscripted in Raleigh, NC on 15 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 3rd North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD on 10 September, left behind, and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September, was probably a prisoner at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, then sent south for exchange. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 14 October and sent to the parole camp there on 21 October 1862.

He was back in a Richmond hospital with smallpox on 30 December and furloughed on 23 February 1863. He was again in a hospital in Richmond, VA in March, afterward on sick furlough or in hospitals in North Carolina to at least October 1863. He died of disease in a CS hospital at Orange Court House, VA on 25 November 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Roster,1 which says he was captured at Frederick on 15 September 1862, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1834

Death

11/25/1863; Orange Court House, VA

Notes

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 18770]

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 34482]