Henry Cornet Rieves

Not quite 24 years old, he enlisted as a Private in Company H, 4th North Carolina Infantry on 13 June 1861 in Statesville.

He was captured at Boonesboro, MD on 15 September 1862 - the day following the regiment's fight at Fox's Gap on South Mountain.

He was a prisoner at Fort Delaware by about 15 September, paroled and sent to Aiken's Landing, VA for exchange on 2 October, was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 4 October, and declared exchanged on 10 November 1862.

He was captured, ill, at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863, was briefly at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, then was a prisoner at Fort Delaware. He was sent to Hammond Hospital at Point Lookout, MD on 15 October, but died there of chronic diarrhea on 26 October 1863.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 via fold3 and the Roster.2 Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah Davald and they had a son, Henry, Jr (1861-1942).

06/17/1837; Iredell County, NC

10/26/1863; Point Lookout, MD; burial in Point Lookout Confederate Cemetery, Scotland, MD