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(c. 1838 - ?)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 22 year old laborer living with his mother Sarah in Guilford County, NC. He enlisted in Wentworth, Rockingham County, NC on 13 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 18 May in Garysburg, NC. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.
On the Campaign
He was captured at Fox's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was wounded by a gunshot through his left hand at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862 and did not return to his company - he was in hospitals and on furlough recovering and, after about June 1863, on details to hospitals in Richmond, VA. He was retired to the Invalid Corps on 25 October 1864 and assigned to Charlotte, NC, where he was captured in May 1865 while detailed to CS General Hospital #11. He was paroled on 13 May.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from the US Census of 1860.
Birth
c. 1838; Rockingham County, NC
1 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 33265]