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(c. 1844 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 17 year old farmer living with his father, 4 siblings, and 18 slaves on their substantial farm near Anderson's Store in Caswell County, NC. 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 18 May in Raleigh. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861. He was sick in a hospital in Danville, VA with remittent fever from 21 June 1862 to 23 August, when he "deserted" the hospital and returned to his company.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the hip and captured in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at a US Army field hospital in Burkittsville, MD, date not given, and "not since heard [from]. Believed to be dead."
References & notes
Birth
c. 1844; Caswell County, NC
Death
09/1862; in MD
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 33137]
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 33138]