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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Anderson C. Keith

(c. 1836 - 1863)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 26, 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 on 10 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, admitted to the Canden Street US Army General Hospital in Baltimore on 28 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort McHenry to 12 November, then sent south for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Petersburg, VA on 21 November and furloughed on 29 November 1862.

He returned to duty about May 1863 and was wounded by a gunshot to his right shoulder joint, with fracture, in action at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July and captured there. He was admitted to the US Army's Camp Letterman hospital in Gettysburg on 27 July, died of his wound there on 1 August 1863, and was buried on the hospital grounds.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 His modern memorial in Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, NC is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1836

Death

08/01/1863; Gettysburg, PA

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 34476]

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: #35 [AotW citation 34477]

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