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(c. 1838 - 1863)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 22 year old "hireling" (laborer) living with his parents and 8 younger siblings on their small farm in Montgomery County, NC. His soon-to-be wife lived next door. He was conscripted in Raleigh on 16 July 1862 as a Private in Company C of the 14th North Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD about 10 September, was left behind, and was captured there on the 12th.
The rest of the War
He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September, then probably sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore for exchange. He returned to duty from a smallpox hospital in Richmond, VA on 31 March 1863. He was sent to CS General Hospital #22 in Richmond about 1 June and died there of typhoid fever on 20 June 1863.
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. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Margaret Clarinda Hardister (later Talbert, 1838-1913) in February 1861 and they had a daughter Caroline (1862-).
Birth
c. 1838 in NC
Death
06/20/1863; Richmond, VA; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
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 34143]
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: #243 [AotW citation 34144]