Doctor Chalmers Phillips

Going by Chalmers, in 1860 he was a 20 year old living with his parents and 6 siblings on their farm near Prosperity in Moore County, NC. He was conscripted in Raleigh, NC on 15 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 3rd North Carolina Infantry.

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 "and sent to the rear."

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 3 October and afterward listed as absent without leave to at least December 1863. He was captured, along with most of his regiment, at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864 and was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD to 15 March 1865, when he was sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange.

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer on his own place at Prosperity in Moore County, NC.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3 as D.C. Phillips; his records are intermingled with those of his brother C.D. Phillips, same company. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His memorial is on Findagrave.

His brother Charles D Phillips was with him at Sharpsburg, and killed there.

05/05/1840; Moore County, NC

08/15/1908; Moore County, NC; burial in Fair Promise United Methodist Church Cemetery, Glendon, NC