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(c. 1837 - 1863)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was living with his parents on their small farm at Snow Hill in Greene County, NC. Giving his age as 25, he enlisted in Goldsboro, NC on 13 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company A, 3rd North Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.
The rest of the War
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 in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 11 October, sent to the parole camp on 17 October, and formally exchanged to return to duty on 10 November 1862.
He was listed as being at home without leave in December 1862 and was back with his company in February 1863, but he died in the Guinea Station, VA hospital, probably of disease, on 11 April 1863.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. He has a memorial in Cobb Cemetery, Jason, NC and one in Kearney Cemetery, Snow Hill, NC, both online from Findagrave.
Birth
c. 1837 in NC
Death
04/11/1863; Guinea Station, VA
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 34395]
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: #250 [AotW citation 34396]