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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Augustine W. Harmon

(c. 1833 - 1863)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 27 year old carpenter living with his parents and 5 siblings on their small farm in Cleveland County, NC. He enlisted on 26 April 1861 in White Plains, NC and mustered on 10 June in Garysburg, NC as a Private in Captain Dixon's Company - the Cleveland Blues - of the 4th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry. They were re-designated Company D of the 14th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

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 18 September, sent to Fort Delaware, then, on 2 October, on to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 December 1862 but was admitted to CS General Hospital #21 in Richmond, VA on 25 May 1863 and died there of disease on 30 May.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1833; Cleveland County, NC

Death

05/30/1863; Richmond, VA; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, 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 34141]

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: #48 [AotW citation 34142]

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