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(c. 1834 - 1863)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: 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
Birth
c. 1834
Death
11/25/1863; Orange Court House, VA
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]