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(1844 - 1896)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Son of a cooper, in 1860 he was a 15 year old living with his parents and 5 siblings at Springhope in Nash County, NC. He enlisted in Nash County, NC on 4 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 30th 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, a prisoner at Fort Delaware, then transferred on 2 October to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 9 October, furloughed for 20 days on 26 October, and officially exchanged on 10 November 1862.
He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and his right leg was amputated 5 inches below the knee by Surgeon Tracy the same day. He was captured there on 3 July and was treated in hospitals on the field, at the Letterman General Hospital in Gettysburg by 10 August, then in the West's Buildings Hospital in Baltimore from 1 October to 12 November, when he was transferred to City Point, VA for exchange. He was furloughed home from a hospital in Richmond, VA on 10 December, in the CSA General Hospital in Charlottesville, VA in April 1864, at about which time he applied for a prosthetic leg, and was retired to the Invalid Corps on 8 July.
He was back in the hospital in Charlottesville on 22 November 1864 with no later military record.
After the War
In 1870 he was a wheelwright at Nashville in Nash County, NC and by 1880, still a wheelwright, lived at Toisnot in Wilson County, NC. He applied for a Confederate disability pension there in June 1885.
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 1860-1880.
His cousins George and Hilliard were also captured in Frederick.
His surgeon at Gettysburg was probably Brigade Surgeon James Wright Tracy, late of the 37th and 14th North Carolina Infantry regiments.
Birth
12/09/1844; Nash County, NC
Death
08/03/1896; Nash County, NC
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 34518]
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: #67 [AotW citation 34519]