Pierson Shull

In 1860 he was a 50 year old farmer near Lincolnton in Lincoln County, NC. He enlisted there on 15 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K of the 49th North Carolina Infantry on 21 April.

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 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 10 October, sent to Camp Lee on the 12th, and was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was discharged 2 days later for "physical disability."

He died at home on 10 September 1864, about 54 years old.

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.

He married Nancy Spratt (1807-1870) in January 1833 and they had 3 sons. Their oldest, Joseph David Shull (b. 1838) was a Private in Company G of the 57th North Carolina Infantry. He was mortally wounded at Chancellorsville, VA on May 1863 and died that June in Richmond, VA. Their youngest, Charles, had died at age 18 in 1860.

c. 1810; Lincoln County, NC

09/10/1864; Lincoln County, NC