Apollos Stanton

Son of a farmer, in 1860 he was a 17 year old school teacher living with Thomas Dawson, his family, and 30 slaves on their plantation at Moseley Hall in Lenoir County, NC; another resident there, Eliz/Eliza Tayor, age 30, owned another 14 slaves. He enlisted there on 25 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C of the 27th North Carolina Infantry.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD, sick, on 11 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, where he died of disease on 19 October 1862.

His widow Elizabeth filed a claim for his final pay of $91.52 in November 1863, which was probably paid in November 1864.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, indexed under Appollas Stanton. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and his brother George's 1871 claim on the US Government, transcribed and published in Trees of Wilson [pdf, October 2007] from the Wilson County Genealogical Society. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

04/26/1843; Wilson County, NC

10/19/1862; Fort Delaware, DE; burial in Finn's Point National Cemetery, Pennsville, NJ