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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joseph R. King

(c. 1828 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 32 year old farmer on his widowed mother's place at Rolesville in Wake County, NC. He enlisted in Forestville on 26 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I, First North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

His mother Nancy filed for his final pay in September 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1828

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 19059]

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 31576]

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