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(1836 - 1925)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 23 year old tobacconist living with Samuel Bowes and family at Leasburg in Caswell County, NC. He enlisted there on 1 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D 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. He was elected 4th Corporal on 26 April 1862 during the army reorganization.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his arm and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 12 October, sent to GH#7 there on 17 October, then on to Fort McHenry in Baltimore. He was transferred to Fortress Monroe, VA on 20 October for exchange, was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 24 October then furloughed home on 29 October. He returned to duty about February 1863, was 2nd Corporal by October 1863, and was promoted to Sergeant on 30 November 1864. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer at Leasburg, NC.
References & notes
His service from Moore's Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his modern government headstone has his surname as Featherstone.
He married Virginia Caroline Richmond (1846-1935) in November 1867 and they had 5 children.
Birth
09/24/1836; Leasburg, NC
Death
12/29/1925; Roxboro, NC; burial in Leasburg Community Cemetery, Leasburg, NC
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. 485 [AotW citation 33206]
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 33207]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #781 [AotW citation 33208]