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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Felix Scarlett

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a farm laborer, in 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his parents and 7 siblings at Fair Grove in Davidson 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, was left behind and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September, then sent to Fort Delaware, where he died on 12 November 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3; two records have his death at Frederick, MD on 14 or 17 September 1862. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1844 in NC

Death

11/12/1862; Fort Delaware, DE

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 34139]

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: #180 [AotW citation 34140]

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