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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Alfred Whitaker

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 17 year old farm worker living with C.S. Anderson and his family on the Anderson farm at Calahaln in Davie County, NC. He enlisted in Mocksville, NC on 26 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry at Garysburg, NC on 15 May. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in a skirmish near the Potomac River on 5 September 1862, the day his regiment crossed the river into Maryland with the rest of Jackson's wing of the army.

The rest of the War

His mother Hetty filed a claim for his final pay of $67.83 in November 1862.

References & notes

His service from Moore's Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1843; Davie County, NC

Death

09/05/1862; near Frederick, MD

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. 494 [AotW citation 33234]

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 33235]

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