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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Alfred M. Wyrick

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 23, 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 died of pneumonia in Chimborazo Hospital #4 in Richmond, VA on 5 December 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records, online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Nancy Elizabeth Busick (b. 1840) in December 1860 and they had a daughter Alice Elizabeth (1862-1932), born less than 3 months before he was conscripted.

Birth

c. 1839

Death

12/05/1862; Richmond, VA; burial in Oakwood 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 26348]

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