(c. 1824 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 37, from Perquimans County, he enlisted on on 18 May 1861 at Edenton, NC, and mustered as Corporal, Company A, First North Carolina Infantry. He was 3rd Sergeant by July and 2nd Sergeant by December 1861 (though paid as a Corporal to April 1862). He was wounded in action at Ellerson's Mill (Mechanicsville), VA on 26 June 1862. He was probably appointed 3rd Lieutenant by September 1862.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1824
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 19072]
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 31552]