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(1842 - 1915)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Son of a trader, in 1860 he was an 18 year old wheelwright living with his father, 2 siblings, and 2 slaves in Mocksville in Davie County, NC. He enlisted there on 26 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 15 May in Garysburg, NC. 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 there.
The rest of the War
He was sent to Fortress Monroe, VA aboard the steamer John A Warner on 10 October 1862 for exchange. He was wounded again, at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863. He returned to duty about November 1863 but was wounded, for the third time, probably in the Wilderness, VA in May 1864. He was captured at Hatcher's Run, VA on 2 April 1865 and a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD until he took an oath of allegiance to the United States there on 23 June 1865 and was released.
After the War
In 1900 he was a farmer at Calahaln in Davie County, NC.
References & notes
Birth
04/22/1842 in NC
Death
06/25/1915; Calahaln Township, NC; burial in Ijames Baptist Church Cemetery, Mocksville, 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. 491 [AotW citation 33223]
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 33224]