[no picture yet]

Confederate (CSV)

Private

Henry Burton Beck

(c. 1835 - c. 1864)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A farmer's son from Davidson County, NC, age 27, he was conscripted at Raleigh, NC on 16 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 14th North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September, sent to Fort Delaware, then, on 2 October, on to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange, arriving on 6 October. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 8 October, was on furlough from 14 October to 14 November, having been formally exchanged on 10 November 1862.

He was with company to at least the end of August 1864, the latest record in his military file.

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 1850.

He married Phoebe Snider (1838-1874) and they had 2 children, born in 1860 and 1862.

Birth

c. 1835; Davidson County, NC

Death

c. 1864

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 34165]

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: #178 [AotW citation 34166]

« Search for another Person