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(1841 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 20, he enlisted in Albemarle, NC on 28 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company H of the 14th North Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and died on the field on or before 19 September.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3; he was left on the field with no record of capture by Federal troops. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850, also as Tillman Sides. His memorial is on Findagrave; he may be buried as an "unknown" in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD, but is not listed among the names of those known to have been buried there.
His brother Edmund was also killed at Sharpsburg.
Birth
04/30/1841 in NC
Death
09/19/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
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 34154]