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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joseph P. Earwood

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 25th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 21 year old living with his parents and 6 siblings on their small farm at Edneyville in Henderson County, NC. He enlisted there on 15 May 1861 and mustered on 30 June in Asheville, NC as a Private in Captain Edney's Company (the Edney Greys) - Company B (later A) of the 25th North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 22 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged to return to duty on 10 November 1862.

He was killed in action at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862.

His widow Sarah filed a claim for his final pay of $15.76 in April 1863.

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 family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1839; Henderson County, NC

Death

12/13/1862; Fredericksburg, 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 34304]

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: #449 [AotW citation 34305]

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