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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John T. Allen

(c. 1840 - 1863)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farmer living with (step-father?) Thomas Wilkins and 5 siblings on the Wilkins farm in Cleveland County, NC. He enlisted in Shelby, NC on 24 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D of the 4th North Carolina Infantry. They were re-designated the 14th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

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 was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 19 October and sent to the parole camp at Camp Lee near Richmond on 18 October. He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #3 in Richmond on 24 December 1862 and died there of typhoid fever on 19 (or 20) January 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 the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1840; Cleveland County, NC

Death

01/19/1863; 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 34146]

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: #184 [AotW citation 34147]

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