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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Cornelius J. Odom

(c. 1843 - 1863)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his parents and 4 younger siblings on their farm at Green Plains in Northampton County, NC. He enlisted at R. Chapel (Chapel Hill?), NC on 26 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 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 General Hospital #1 in Frederick then sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore for exchange about 19 September. He was on parole by October and back with his company in December 1862. He was promoted to Corporal about May 1863 but was killed in action on 17 June 1863 at Winchester, VA.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1843; Northampton County, NC

Death

06/15/1863; Winchester, VA

Notes

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 34061]

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: #242 [AotW citation 34062]

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