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(c. 1839 - ?)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 22, from Chowan County, NC, he enlisted at Edenton, NC on 18 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, First North Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was left behind, ill, in Frederick, MD and captured there on 12 or 13 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in US Army Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD and transferred to Fort McHenry in Baltimore for exchange on about 19 September. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 15 October then absent on sick furlough to at least April 1863. He was promoted to Corporal on 15 June 1863 and captured again, probably near Mechanicsville, VA, on 12 May 1864. He was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD by 18 May, transferred to Elmira, NY on 3 August, and sent to James River, VA on 15 March 1865, the last record in his military file.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1839
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 34057]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #236 [AotW citation 34058]