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Confederate (CSV)

Private

W. Jefferson Fowler

(c. 1832 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Going by Jefferson, in 1850 he was an 18 year old farmer on his parents' place in Orange County, NC. On 15 July 1862, at age 30, he was conscripted in Durham and mustered as a Private in Company F, First North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850.

Birth

c. 1832

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 19055]

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 31561]

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