(1831 - 1905)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 30, from Alamance County, he was conscripted as Private, Company E, First North Carolina Infantry on 15 July 1862 in Raleigh.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in a hospital in Danville, VA into October and later in North Carolina. He was back with his unit by January 1863 but was detailed to the Division Pioneer Corps on 8 March 1863. He returned to his Company in about September 1864 and was with them to at least December.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a miller and farmer at Boon's (now Boone) Station in Alamance County, NC.
References & notes
Birth
11/11/1831; Alamance County, NC
Death
01/09/1905; Alamance County, NC; burial in Saint Mark's Church Cemetery, Burlington, NC
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 26306]