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(c. 1846 - ?)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 16, from Northampton County, he mustered as Private, Company F, First North Carolina Infantry on 15 May 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He lost both legs to amputation and did not return to duty.
After the War
He "secured a position" with the Seaboard Railroad, later the Seaboard Air Line, at Franklin, VA, married there and left a widow and several children when he died (before 1895).
References & notes
Service and other details from the Roster 1 via the Historical Data Systems database. Postwar detail from a piece in the Murfreesboro (NC) Index of 19 April 1895.
Birth
c. 1846
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 19086]