John Lehay

Age 45, from New Hanover County, he enlisted in Wilmington, NC on 7 June 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, First North Carolina Infantry.

He was left behind, sick, in Fredrick, MD on 11 September and captured there on the 13th.

He was in US Army Genearl Hospital #1 in Frederick and sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore for exchange on 19 September. He returned to duty, date not given. He was listed as absent sick after 11 December 1862 and thought to be in a hospital in Gordonsville, VA in April 1863. A notation in the June muster roll states "when last heard from - [he was] in Castle Thunder" - a military prison in Richmond, VA. In August 1864 he was declared a deserter ...

Exact date of desertion cannot be given having been repeatedly arrested and as often escaped the guards. Has not been with his command since December 1862.

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

c. 1816