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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Alfred Blackwelder

(c. 1837 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A carpenter's son, in 1860 he was a 23 year old laborer living next door to his parents near Charlotte in Mecklenburg County, NC. He enlisted in Harralsburg, NC on 3 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 13 May in Raleigh. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 28 September and was furloughed home on 9 (or 19) November. He died at home in Mecklenburg County, NC on Christmas Day 1862.

His widow filed a claim for his final pay of $184.69 in August 1863.

References & notes

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

He married Harriet Matilda Berryhill (1838-) in December 1858 and they had 2 children.

Birth

c. 1837; Mecklenburg County, NC

Death

12/25/1862; Mecklenburg County, NC

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 19174]

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 33154]

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