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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Perry E. Vincent

(c. 1845 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st North Carolina 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

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, also as Perry E Vinson. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1845; Northampton County, NC

Death

09/18/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 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]

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