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(1823 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 37, from Montgomery County, he enlisted as 3rd Corporal, Company C, 23rd North Carolina Infantry on 27 May 1861 in Troy, NC. He was not eligible for an enlistment bounty, being over 35 years of age. He was reduced to Private by 28 June 1862 and was ill with "remittent fever" in hospitals in Richmond and Danville, VA from that date to 6 August.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds on 19 September 1862 at the US Army field hospital at the Hoffman House on the Susan Hoffman farm at Sharpsburg.
References & notes
His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Death detail also in a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862, as A. Crogan on 21 September. His memorial is on Findagrave.
His brothers James and Jeremiah were also in Company C and at Sharpsburg; James killed and Jeremiah wounded there.
Birth
09/12/1823; Montgomery County, NC
Death
09/19/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
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 19325]
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 30069]