Julius Sanders Love

In 1860 he was a 19 year old laborer at Jamestown in Guilford County, NC. Giving his occupation as blacksmith, he enlisted in Lawsonville, NC on 30 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 3 June in Suffolk, VA. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

He was wounded at Fox's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

He returned to duty about March 1863 and was wounded again, by a gunshot through his left elbow at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and captured there. He was treated at a US hospital in Chester, PA, then a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD from 4 October 1863 to 16 March 1864 and his his elbow joint was resected (bone partially removed) in February 1864. He was sent to City Point, VA for exchange and was afterward home on furlough to October 1864, then retired to the Invalid Corps. He was paroled at Greensboro, NC on 5 May 1865.

By 1880 he was a blacksmith at Saltville in Washington County, VA and in 1900 he was a painter in Smyth County, VA. In 1910 he was retired, living with his daughter Mary Lee Mercer and her family in Kewanee, Henry County, IL.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Harriette Ann Brown (1837-1906) and they had 9 children between 1858 and 1876.

02/01/1840; Orange County, NC

07/15/1910; Kewanee, IL; burial in Pleasant View Cemetery, Kewanee, IL