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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Alexander Watson Wells

(c. 1832 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 29, from Wilson County, he enlisted as a Private in Company B, 2nd North Carolina Infantry on 29 May 1861 in Wilson County.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 5 October 1862 in the CS Army hospital at Mt. Jackson, VA.

References & notes

Service and other details from the Roster,1 via the Historical Data Systems database, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, both of which have him as Watson Wells. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He had two children with Wilmouth Eatman/Eatmon (c.1834-c.1911) of Wilson County, described as a "mulatto" or "woman of color," but they did not marry.

Birth

c. 1832; Nash County, NC

Death

10/05/1862; Mt. Jackson, VA; burial in Our Soldiers Cemetery, Mount Jackson, VA

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 19125]

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 27485]

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