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(c. 1844 - ?)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Artillery
Unit: Rowan (NC) Artillery
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 16 year old farmer on his parent's place near Salisbury in Rowan County, NC. He enlisted in Salisbury as a Private in Company D - the Rowan Artillery - First North Carolina Light Artillery (10th Regiment State Troops) on 15 June 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
Except for a brief leave in February 1864 he was with the battery through at least December 1864, the last muster roll in his record. He was surrendered and paroled at Salisbury, NC on 2 May 1865.
After the War
By 1880 he was a laborer at Gold Hill, Rowan County, NC.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His wounding at Sharpsburg from Clark.2 Personal details from family genealogists, also as Henry C Poole, and the US Census of 1860 and 1880.
He married Mary Hatley (1843-) in 1866 and they had 3 children by 1876.
He's easily confused with Henry Clay Pool (1846-1912) who was in Battery H of the First Artillery (10th Regiment) 1863-65.
Birth
c. 1844 in NC
1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 28814]
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. 574-575 [AotW citation 28815]