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Confederate (CSV)

Private

J. E. Eldridge

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 22, he mustered as Private, Company D, 5th North Carolina Infantry on 16 July 1862 in Wake County.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and died of wounds in Boonsboro, MD the next day.

References & notes

Service and other details from the Roster 1 via the Historical Data Systems database.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

09/15/1862; Boonsboro, 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 19139]