[no picture yet]

Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Lewis Cowper Lawrence

(1840 - 1908)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 21, from Hertford County, he mustered as Sergeant, Company F, First North Carolina Infantry on 23 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was commissioned First Lieutenant on 29 July 1863. He transferred to the 68th North Carolina Infantry on 14 October 1863 and was promoted to Captain on 14 October 1863.

After the War

He was a farmer at Murfreesboro in the 1880 US Census.

References & notes

Service and other details from the Roster 1 via the Historical Data Systems database. Details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has him as Lewis Cower Lawrence. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

07/03/1840; Hertford County, NC

Death

04/26/1908; Murfreesboro, NC; burial in Southall - Lawrence Family Cemetery, Murfreesboro, NC

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 19071]

« Search for another Person