(c. 1845 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 15 (18?) year old day laborer living with 2 sisters on his widowed mother's farm in Northampton County, NC. Giving his age as 19, he enlisted at Murfreesboro on 15 June 1861 and mustered as Private, Company F, First North Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and died the next day.
The rest of the War
His mother Priscilla filed for his final pay of $113.50 in March 1863.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1845; Northampton County, NC
Death
09/18/1862; 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 19097]
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 31564]