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(c. 1842 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was an 18 year old worker on his parent's farm near Morganton in Burke County, North Carolina. He enlisted there on 15 October 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 35th North Carolina Infantry on 29 October near Raleigh.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His father Isaac Franklin made a claim for his final pay in May 1863.
References & notes
His service from the Roster1 and his Compiled Service Record,2 online via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, as Sidney A. Franklin. Thanks to descendant Charles “Chris” Cowart for his middle name.
Azor's brothers Isom/Isham Franklin (1840-1910) and Lenoir Franklin (c. 1845-1885) may have been with him in Maryland in 1862. A fourth brother Rufus H. Franklin (c. 1843-1862) was also in Company K, but died of a fever at home in January 1862.
Birth
c. 1842; Burke County, NC
Death
09/17/1862; 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 26107]
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 28068]