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(1837 - 1914)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 24 year old living with his parents and 6 siblings on their small farm near Yanceyville in Caswell County, NC. He enlisted there on 29 April 1861 and 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 appointed First Corporal on 26 April 1862 at the army reorganization.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his right hip in action and captured at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 (probably on 22 September) and set to a private house in the city on 13 October. He was afterward held at Fort McHenry in Baltimore until paroled on 6 November and transferred for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 13 November and furloughed for 30 days on 5 December 1862. He remained absent on furlough or in hospitals to 7 January 1864, when he was discharged for disability - the bullet remained in his hip.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer living with his widowed mother and 2 to 4 sisters at Yanceyville. By 1910, still unmarried, he was living with his sister Martha T "Mattie" Poteat Murray and her family in Yanceyville.
References & notes
His service from Moore's Roster,1 as F.R. Neal, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 as James Poleate, wounded in the left leg. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880, 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
10/15/1837; Caswell County, NC
Death
09/11/1914; Yanceyville, NC; burial in First Baptist Church Cemetery, Yanceyville, NC
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 33141]
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 33142]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #5.248 [AotW citation 33143]