Samuel Wesley Furches

Age 25, he enlisted at Mocksville, NC on 6 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 31 August. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

He was left behind, ill, and captured in Frederick, MD on 12 September 1862.

He was treated at US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, then at Fort Delaware to 2 October, when he was sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 10 October, furloughed for 25 days on 6 November, formally exchanged on 10 November, and returned to duty. He was wounded at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and was absent on wounded furlough or in hospitals to about March 1864. He was retired to the Invalid Corps for disability on 20 April 1864. He was paroled at Mocksville, NC on 9 June 1865.

In 1880 he was a farmer at Clarksville in Davie County, NC but by 1900, still farming, he was living with his son Charley, a miner in Washington County, TN. He'd finally retired there by 1910.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880-1910, often going by Wesley.

He married Mary Louise Cain (1848-1923) in December 1869 and they had 7 children.

07/20/1835; Davie County, NC

11/13/1915; Embreeville, TN