David Monroe Moss

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farmer living with his parents and 7 siblings on their small farm at Webster in Jackson County, NC. He enlisted there on 30 May 1861 and mustered on 8 June as a Private in Company B of the 25th North Carolina Infantry.

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 18 September then transfered for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 15 October, sent to the parole camp there on 21 October, and formally exchanged to return to duty on 10 November 1862.

He was wounded in the ankle at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December, was back in a hospital in Richmond, and returned to duty in February 1863. He was listed as a deserter from camp at Weldon, NC on 22 July 1863 but was back with his company again by the end of 1863. He deserted to the enemy at Petersburg, VA on 25 August 1864 and was "sent north." He was released on 25 April 1865 after taking an oath of allegiance to the United States at Knoxville, TN.

In 1880 he was a railroad laborer in Eastland County, TX but by 1900 was a farmer back in Jackson County, TX.

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, 1880, and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave. He probably never married.

09/29/1838; Jackson County, NC

12/08/1900; burial in Hamburg Cemetery, Glenville, NC