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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Calvin Graves Lea

(1834 - 1907)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A prosperous planter's son, age 27, he enlisted at Yanceyville, NC on 29 April 1861 and he mustered as a Private in Company A of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 24 June in Raleigh. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded and captured in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 3 October, admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 22 October, and was furloughed home on 24 October. He was discharged for disability on 15 May 1863.

After the War

In 1870 he was a farmer at Dan River in Caswell County, NC but by 1880 was a practicing physician in Milton, NC. In 1900 he was again a farmer there.

References & notes

His service from Moore's Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Eugenia L Lea (1846-1930) in June 1869 and they had 7 children.

Birth

01/21/1834; Caswell County, NC

Death

01/12/1907; burial in New Hope United Methodist Church Cemetery, Hamer, NC

Notes

1 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 1, p. 474 [AotW citation 33133]

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 33134]

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