(c. 1839 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 21 year old farmer on his parents' place at Beulah in Johnston County, NC. He was conscripted in Raleigh on 15 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company C, First North Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was "left wounded on the battlefield at Sharpsburg, supposed mortally, died of wounds" on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His father Garry filed for his final pay of $73.46 in May 1863.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1839; Johnston County, NC
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
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 19066]
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 31577]