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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Ruffin H. Price

(c. 1832 - c. 1865)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 18th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 28 year old cooper at Stanhope in Nash County, NC. He enlisted on 23 April 1861 at Whiteville, NC and mustered in Wilmington, NC on 15 June as a Private in Company H (Columbus Guards No. 1), 8th North Carolina Infantry. They were re-designated the 18th Infantry on 14 November 1861.

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 treated for a gunshot wound 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 formally exchanged on 10 November.

He was promoted to 3rd Corporal by August 1863 and in about June 1864 he was "wounded accidentally while absent from his [command] home on furlough." He returned to his company by October 1864 but was detailed on light duty by a medical board on 5 January 1865 with no later military record.

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 1860.

He married Civil A. Sellers (1833-1871) in 1856 and they had 2 sons.

Birth

c. 1832; Nash County, NC

Death

c. 1865

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 34212]

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: #451 [AotW citation 34213]

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