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Confederate (CSV)

Private

David Watson

(c. 1835 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 26 year old mechanic from Rockingham County, NC, he enlisted in Wentworth, NC on 3 May 1861, and he mustered as a Private in Company H of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry at Garysburg, NC on 18 May. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by gunshots to his right thigh, the bone broken, and left shoulder in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and was captured.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 22 October and transferred to Fort McHenry in Baltimore on 13 December. He was paroled there the next day and transferred south for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Petersburg, VA on 18 December 1862 and furloughed for 60 days on 5 January 1863 but never rejoined his company and was discharged for disability on 18 March 1864.

References & notes

His service from Moore's Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Wound and hospital details also on the Patient List.3

Birth

c. 1835

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. 501 [AotW citation 33241]

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 33242]

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 #5.237 [AotW citation 33243]

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