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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Benjamin Thomas

(c. 1831 - 1864)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 31, from Guilford County, he was conscripted as Private, Company A, First North Carolina Infantry on 15 July 1862 in Guilford.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He returned to his Company by February 1863. He was captured in the Wilderness, VA on 8 May 1864 and held at Point Lookout, MD. He died there on 31 July 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records, online from fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1831

Death

07/31/1864; Point Lookout, MD; burial in Point Lookout Confederate Cemetery, Scotland, MD

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 26339]

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