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(c. 1845 - 1863)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 15 year old living with his parents, 2 siblings, and 7 slaves on their farm at Lawsonville in Rockingham County, NC. He gave his age as 18 when he enlisted there on 4 August 1862 and he mustered as a Private in Company K of the 13th North Carolina Infantry.
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 in Fort Delaware until 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He returned to his company in about January 1863 and was killed in action at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
Birth
c. 1845 in NC
Death
05/03/1863; Chancellorsville, VA
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 33268]