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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John A. Morriss

(c. 1834 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 28, from Wilson County, NC, he was conscripted into service in Raleigh, NC on 16 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company A of the 14th North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September, and probably sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore for exchange. He was in action with his company at Gettysburg, PA in July 1863 and was captured at Petersburg, VA on 2 April 1865. He was held at Hart's Island in New York Harbor to 18 June 1865, when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

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. 1834

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 34137]

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: #177 [AotW citation 34138]

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