Waterman Fipps

A 22 year old farmer, he enlisted at Whitesville in Columbus County, NC on 26 April 1861 and mustered on 18 June as a Private in Company D, 20th North Carolina Infantry. He was wounded on 1 July 1862 at Malvern Hill, VA and returned to duty about 1 September.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left shoulder which shattered the head of his humerus (upper arm bone) in action Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862. Surgeon Robert Iverson Hicks, 23rd North Carolina Infantry, removed the top three inches of his humerus the same day. He was captured, probably the next day.

He was paroled at Boonsboro, MD on 3 October and sent from Fort McHenry in Baltimore to Fortress Monroe, VA on 17 October 1862 for exchange. He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #4 in Richmond, VA on 24 October and furloughed for 60 days on 5 (or 12) November, having been formally exchanged on 10 November. He returned on 8 February 1863 and was discharged for disability on 17 February from camp near Fredericksburg, VA.

By 1870 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer at Whitesville in Columbus County, NC. In 1920 he was retired and living with his oldest son Franklin and family on their farm in Columbus County.

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, indexed as Waterman Phipps. Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Nancy Emeline Spivey (1839-1912) in 1858 and they had 6 sons.

06/24/1839; Horry District, SC

04/01/1922; Tabor City, NC; burial in Spivey Cemetery, Tabor City, NC