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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Elias C. Rumple

"Eli"

(c. 1836 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 25 year old apprentice to master carpenter Robert McLean at Rockingham in Richmond County, NC. He mustered as a Private in Company A, 4th North Carolina Infantry on 29 May 1861 in Brunswick County and was promoted to Corporal on 31 December 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Service and other details from the Roster 1 via the Historical Data Systems database. Personal details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has his birth in Rowan County, and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1836 in Iredell County

Death

09/17/1862; 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 19133]

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