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T.E. Sims
(1845 - 1864)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A 17 year old farmer, he enlisted at Hillsborough, NC on 26 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry.
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 mortally wounded by a gunshot in the side in a skirmish at Gary's Farm, VA on 15 (or 17) June 1864 and died in the Camp Winder hospital in Richmond, VA hospital the next day (or 18 June).
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 the Descriptive Book. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph contributed by the Thanatos Archive.
Birth
02/23/1845; Orange County, NC
Death
06/16/1864; Richmond, VA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
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 31514]
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. 269 [AotW citation 31515]