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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

John W. Todd

(1835 - 1865)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 24 year old blacksmith living on Colonel William M Grier's plantation (25 slaves) at Charlotte in Mecklenburg County, NC. He enlisted at Ranalesburg, NC on 3 April 1861 and mustered as 4th Sergeant of Company B of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 13 May in Raleigh. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861. He was reduced to Private on 26 April 1862 during the reorganization of army but was appointed 2nd Sergeant on 26 July.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 27 September and furloughed for 30 days on 14 October 1862. He was promoted to First Sergeant on 1 July 1863 and was with his company to about May 1864, then sick in hospitals to at least October 1864, the latest record in his military file.

References & notes

His service from Moore's Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

05/28/1835; Mecklenburg County, NC

Death

09/23/1865; burial in Paw Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Charlotte, 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. 476 [AotW citation 33152]

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 33153]

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