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(c. 1838 - 1888)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 22 year old store clerk living with his schoolteacher mother and 4 siblings in New Bern, NC. He enrolled in Raleigh, NC on 30 May 1861 and mustered on 13 July at Camp Winslow as Captain of Company D, 5th North Carolina Infantry. He was captured at Williamsburg, VA and paroled there on 5 May 1862. He was formally exchanged to return to duty on 13 August at Fortress Monroe, VA and rejoined his company on 24 August.
On the Campaign
He was mentioned as having "conducted [himself] with soldier-like gallantry" on the Maryland Campaign by General D.H. Hill.
The rest of the War
He was killed in action at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. The D H Hill quote from the general's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave.
His brother Rayner (1844-1926) was Captain of Company C of the 5th North Carolina Infantry, and lost a leg at Spotsylvania Court House.
Birth
c. 1838; New Bern, NC
Death
05/12/1864; Spotsylvania Court House, 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 34027]