Edward C. Denton

Son of a farm worker, in 1860 he was an 18 year old farm laborer living with his parents and 2 siblings at Baker's Crossroads in Franklin County, NC. He enlisted at Louisburg, NC on 17 June 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K of the 14th North Carolina Infantry. They were re-designated the 24th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD, sick, by 12 September 1862, left behind, and captured there.

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 admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 11 October, sent to the parole camp on 18 October, and was formally exchanged to return to duty on 10 November 1862. He was with his company to the end of the war and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

In 1870 he was a farmer next door to his brother Laban at Nashville in Nash County, NC. By 1880 and to at least 1910 (then next door to brother Robert) he was a farmer at Gold Mine back in Franklin County, NC. In 1930 he had retired and boarded with Robert & Bonnie Mitchell in Cedar Rock Township, Franklin County, NC.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910, 1930. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha Ann Brake (1841-1930) in December 1866 and they had a daughter.

His brother Laban (1842-1910) was also in Company K and may have been in Maryland with him in September 1862.

c. 1842 in NC

04/10/1932; burial in Mount Hebron Church Cemetery, Centerville, NC