Arnold Thelbert Baldree

From Pitt County, he enlisted there on 15 July 1862 as Private, Company D, 3rd North Carolina Infantry.

He was wounded in his left thigh in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured.

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 15 October and transferred out to a hospital in Baltimore on 9 February 1863. He was sent on to Fort McHenry on 14 or 15 February and was paroled and exchanged at City Point, VA, and in a hospital in Petersburg, VA by 18 February. He was furloughed in March and absent to at least April 1863 with no further military record.

In 1880 he was a sawyer in Contentnea, Pitt County.

His service from the Roster.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Delitha Byrd (1832-1895) in September 1853 and they had 9 children.

His brother Elias died of his Sharpsburg wound on 17 November 1862.

09/13/1828; Pitt County, NC

06/03/1904; Winterville, NC; burial in Bethany FWB Church, Winterville, NC