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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Alson Boone

(c. 1845 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 15 year old living with his parents and 5 siblings on their farm near Greensboro in Guilford County, NC. He was conscripted there on 8 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 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 in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 13 October and was back with his company by December 1862. He was captured in the Wilderness, VA on 12 May 1864 and a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD to 1 November, when he was exchanged. He was on furlough home in December 1864. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2

Birth

c. 1845; Guilford County, NC

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 34063]

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: #251 [AotW citation 34064]

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