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(c. 1837 - 1863)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A 24 year old farmer, he enlisted at Yanceyville, NC 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.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was home on wounded furlough to about January 1863 and was promoted to 4th Corporal on 11 May. He was mortally wounded at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and died there the next day.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1837; Caswell County, NC
Death
07/03/1863; Gettysburg, PA
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, 475 [AotW citation 33146]
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 33147]