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"Frank"
(1842 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 19, he enlisted at Wentworth, NC on 10 May 1861 and mustered on 18 May in Garysburg, NC as a Private in Company H of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.
On the Campaign
In his after action report, Lieutenant Colonel Ruffin wrote:
Of the privates whose conduct came under my observation, I take occasion to mention particularly Frank Scales, of Company H, as the bravest man in battle I ever saw. I should have recommended him for promotion, but that, unfortunately, he was wounded and left on the field in the battle of the 17th.He was killed at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
References & notes
His service from Moore's Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. There is a modern government marker for him in Greenview Cemetery, Reidsville, NC (via Findagrave).
Birth
1842; Rockingham County, NC
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in There is a modern government marker for him in Greenview Cemetery, Reidsville, N
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. 500 [AotW citation 33190]
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 33191]