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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Bryant Harrison

(c. 1838 - 1863)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a farmer, and the only son, with 10 sisters, in 1860 he was a 22 year old farm laborer living on Caswell Powell's place (12 slaves) at Auburn in Wake County, NC. He was conscripted in Raleigh, NC on 15 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 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 18 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange.

He died of variola (smallpox) in a hospital in Richmond, VA on 15 February 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 1850 & 1860.

He married Jane Ellen Poole (1838-1914) in Wake County in October 1860 and they had 2 sons.

Birth

c. 1838; Wake County, NC

Death

02/15/1863; Richmond, 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 34465]

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: #37 [AotW citation 34466]

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