Madison E. Deloatch

In 1860 he was a 23 year old school teacher living with his brother Henry, a physician, and his 3 and Henry's 2 slaves at Green Plains in Northampton County, NC. He enlisted at Garysburg, NC on 23 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A of the 5th North Carolina Infantry. They were re-designated the 15th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861. He was promoted to 3rd Corporal on 2 May 1862.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD, was left behind, and was captured there on the 12th.

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 22 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 admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 6 October, on furlough by the end of the month, and returned to duty in January 1863.

He was promoted to First Corporal in June 1863. He was mortally wounded by a gunshot about 8 June 1864, place not given, and admitted to the Camp Winder Hospital in Richmond, VA on 9 June. He died there on 22 July 1864.

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.

c. 1837

07/22/1864; Richmond, VA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA