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(c. 1840 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A 21 year old farmer in Davie County, he enlisted at Mocksville, NC and mustered as a Private and mustered as a Private in Company F of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 15 May in Garysburg, NC. 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 and died of his wounds on 17 September 1862, place not given.
The rest of the War
His widow Martha Jane filed a claim for his final pay in February 1864.
References & notes
His service from the North Carolina Troops,1 Moore's Roster,2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. He's seen also as Franklin J Kurfees.
He married Martha Jane Warren (1839-1871) in September 1858 and they had a son John (1859-1937). Martha re-married, John V Tutterow, in 1867; he had also served in Company F of the 13th North Carolina.
Birth
c. 1840
Death
09/17/1862
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 19175]
2 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 1, p. 493 [AotW citation 33225]
3 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 33226]