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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James L. Phelps

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 21 year old farmer, he enlisted in Milton, NC on 24 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 15 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 Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He returned to duty about April 1863 and was wounded again, in May 1864, place not given. He was absent to at least October 1864 and was captured in a Richmond, VA hospital on 3 April 1865. He was held in Newport News, VA until he took an oath of allegiance there on 30 June 1865 and was released.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1840

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. 482 [AotW citation 33202]

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 33203]

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