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(c. 1839 - ?)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Artillery
Unit: Rowan (NC) Artillery
Before Sharpsburg
He was a 21 year old dry goods clerk in Salisbury, Rowan County, NC, living with W. Myers and other store staff in 1860. He and Myers were commissioned 2nd Lieutenants of Company D - the Rowan Artillery - First North Carolina Light Artillery (10th Regiment State Troops) on 8 May 1861.
On the Campaign
He commanded the center section of 3-inch rifled guns of the battery on the Campaign, but was without ammunition and not engaged at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 7 September 1863 and was in command of the battery as senior man present at the surrender at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1839
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 28807]
2 Clark, Walter, editor, Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War, 1861-1865, 5 vols., Raleigh and Goldsboro (NC): E. M. Uzzell, Nash Brothers, printers, 1901, Vol. 1, pp. 561, 576, 580 [AotW citation 28808]