Wiley Earnhart

In 1860 he was a 24 year old day laborer and lived on his parent's farm at Gold Hill near Salisbury, NC. He enlisted in Salisbury as a Private in Company D - the Rowan Artillery - First North Carolina Light Artillery (10th Regiment State Troops) on 11 March 1862.

Initially listed as missing, he was captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was back with his battery by December 1862 and was with it to at least February 1865, the last record in his military file.

By 1880 he was farming his own place at Gold Hill, NC, but in 1900 was a day laborer there.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Clark2 has him as missing at Sharpsburg. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, and 1900.

He married Christina Elizabeth Kirk (1845-1933) in May 1871 and they had 4 daughters, then 4 sons.

His brothers Abraham (1833-1862) and Robert (1839-1919) also enlisted as Privates in the battery in March 1862; Abraham was mortally wounded in action near Richmond, VA on 1 July 1862, Robert may have been wounded (date and place not known) but survived to the surrender at Appomattox Court House, VA.

04/13/1836; Rowan County, NC

01/1906; Gold Hill, NC