Egbert Haywood Strayhorn

In 1860 he was a 27 year old farmer with his family and brother Sidney at Hillsborough in Orange County, NC. He enlisted there on 5 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry.

He was with his company at Harpers Ferry but not with them in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was detailed to the Ambulance Corps in January 1863 and in a hospital at Orange Court House, VA in December 1863 and January 1864. He was in hospital and on furlough in North Carolina in March and April and was wounded in the neck in the Wilderness, VA on 5 May 1864. He died of "convulsions" in the CS Army General Hospital in Danville, VA on 1 July 1864.

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. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 (also as Strayharn). His memorial is on Findagrave.

He married Malinda Borland (1833-) in December 1856 and they had 2 children.

His brothers Sidney Gaston (1834-1912) and Quintillion Green "Willie" Strayhorn (1827-1864) were also in Company G.

09/18/1832; Orange County, NC

07/01/1864; Danville, VA