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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

W. H. Carter

(? - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From Rockingham County, he enlisted in Wentworth, NC on 3 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 13th North Carolina Infantry. He was promoted to Sergeant on 28 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. His memorial in Greenview Cemetery, Reidsville, NC is on Findagrave.

Death

09/14/1862; Fox's Gap, 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 19163]

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 33077]

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