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Confederate (CSV)

Private

David Carder

(1841 - 1901)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Port Gibson, MS as a Private in Company F, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 13 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action in Maryland in September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was in a US Army hospital in Washington, DC by 21 September, then sent to the Old Capitol Prison on 30 September. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 7 October, exchanged in November, and back with his Company on 27 November 1862. He was captured again, on 28 (or 30) April 1863 near Fredericksburg, VA, sent to Washington, DC on 1 May, and returned to duty by June. He was captured for the final time on 3 April 1865 at a hospital in Richmond, VA, but escaped on 20 April.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer at Charleston, Tallahatchie County, MS.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Lucy Elizabeth Shaw (1848-1901) in March 1866 and they had 11 children.

Birth

01/07/1841; Lincoln, TN

Death

07/19/1901; Tallahatchie County, MS; burial in Carder Cemetery, Charleston, MS

Notes

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 28962]

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