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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Winborn C. Davis

(c. 1841 - 1863)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 20, from Northampton County, he enlisted as Private, Company F, First North Carolina Infantry on 18 August 1861 at Camp Bee, VA.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Sergeant on 1 June 1863 but was mortally wounded at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July and captured at a hospital near the battlefield on 5 July. He died of wounds there, date not given.

References & notes

His service from the Roster.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1841; Northampton County, NC

Death

1863; Gettysburg, PA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA

Notes

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 26291]

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