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(1824 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He was a Mexican War (1847-48) veteran, and was later First Lieutenant of the local militia company, the Anson Guards. In 1860 was a 36 year old farmer with two slaves at Wadesboro in Anson County, NC. He enlisted in Virginia on 10 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A of the 13th North Carolina Infantry (Volunteers). They were re-designated the 23rd North Carolina Infantry (State Troops) on 14 November 1861.
On the Campaign
He was with his company in Maryland and was probably discharged for disability on 10 September, but remained with his unit and was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His widow Flora filed a claim for his final pay of $161.98 in July 1863. It was probably paid in November 1864.
References & notes
His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. His death at Sharpsburg also in the unit history by Adjutant Turner in Clark.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
He married Flora A McBride (1839-1867) in May 1845 and they had 4 children.
Birth
02/13/1824; Wadesboro, NC
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966- [AotW citation 33112]
2 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 33113]
3 Clark, Walter, editor, Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War, 1861-1865, 5 vols., Raleigh and Goldsboro (NC): E. M. Uzzell, Nash Brothers, printers, 1901, Vol. 2, p. 224 [AotW citation 33114]