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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Hugh P. Woods

(1840 - 1863)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old on his parents' farm in Orange County, NC. He enlisted at Fort Macon on 14 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 22 June. He was promoted to Corporal on 17 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was with his company at Harpers Ferry and in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was killed at Bristoe Station, VA on 14 October 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3 and J.A. Graham's Descriptive Book of the Orange Guards in his Papers;2 thanks to Steve Peck for the nudge to look deeper into that. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

01/15/1840; Orange County, NC

Death

10/14/1863; Bristoe Station, VA

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 31504]

2 Graham, James Augustus, and H.M. Wagstaff, editor, The James A. Graham Papers, 1861-1884, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1928, p. 235 [AotW citation 31505]

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