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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James F. Kirkpatrick

(c. 1833 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 28 year old farmer, he enlisted at Ranalesburg, NC on 17 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 31 August 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 Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured.

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 23 September and admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 4 October. He returned to duty by January 1863 and was wounded again, at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and captured there. He was in a US hospital in Chester, PA on 18 July and sent to City Point, VA for exchange on 17 August. He was paroled, exchanged, and in camp at Petersburg, VA by 22 August, afterward home on wounded furlough to about the end of the year. He was on detail in Gordonsville, VA from January to at least October 1864 and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

References & notes

His service from Moore's Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1833

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. 478 [AotW citation 33163]

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 33164]

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