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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Mecam M. Coggins

(? - 1864)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in New Bern, NC on 15 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company H of the 27th North Carolina Infantry. He was the subject of a court martial on 18 May 1862, charges and outcome not found.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD, sick, on 11 September 1862, left behind, and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September, admitted to the US General Hospital in Chester, PA with typhoid fever on 2 October, and sent to Fort Delaware on 6 January 1863. He was paroled there and sent to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange on 28 March 1863.

He was killed in action on 1 October 1864, probably near Petersburg, VA.

References & notes

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

Death

10/01/1864; Petersburg, 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 34368]

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: #345 [AotW citation 34369]

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