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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joel R. Medlin

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farm worker living with his (widowed?) mother Charlotte and younger sister Mariah on their farm near Weldon in Halifax County, NC. He enlisted at Camp Advance near Garysburg, NC on 5 (or 15) July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I of the 2nd North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD sick 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 18 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was admitted to CS General Hospital #19 in Richmond, VA hospital on 13 October and died there on 27 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1840; Halifax County, NC

Death

10/27/1862; Richmond, VA

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 34242]

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: #82 [AotW citation 34243]

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