Charles B. Sikes

In 1860 he was a married 22 year old farmer with a small place at Whiteville in Columbus County, NC. He enlisted there on 15 February 1862 and mustered in Goldsboro on 15 May as a Private in Company H, 3rd North Carolina Infantry.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to about 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 9 October, furloughed for 30 days on 5 November, and formally exchanged to return to duty on 10 November 1862.

He rejoined his company by May 1863 and was wounded by a gunshot to his left foot, with fracture, in action at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and captured. He was treated in a field hospital there, sent to the Newton University Hospital in Baltimore on 11 July, then to a hospital in Chester, PA on the 16th. He was transferred to the Hammond General Hospital at Point Lookout, MD on 4 October, paroled there on 27 April 1864, and sent to City Point, VA for exchange. He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #3 in Richmond, VA on 1 May but died there of chronic diarrhea on 10 June 1864.

His widow Zilpha filed a claim for his final pay in February 1865; it is unlikely she was ever paid.

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 married Zelphia/Zilpha Ann (?, c. 1842-; later Highsmith) and they had a daughter Columbia (1861-1923).

c. 1838 in NC

06/10/1864; Richmond, VA; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, VA