Orren Lafayette Pierce

In 1860 he was a 22 year old farmer living with his mother and 3 brothers on their farm near Wolfsville in Union County, NC. He enlisted in Mecklenburg County, NC on 13 September 1861 and mustered in Wilmington, NC on 8 October as a Private in Company K, 30th 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 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, sent to the parole camp on 20 October, and officially exchanged on 10 November 1862.

He was captured at Fisher's Hill, VA on 22 September 1864 and a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD by 3 October. He was paroled and sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange on 17 March 1865 with no later military record.

By 1870 he was farming with his mother at Indian Land, Lancaster County, SC, living next door to Company K veteran and fellow Fredrick captive John H Howey, and was there to at least 1880. By 1900, like Howey, he was a farmer at Sandy Ridge in Union County, NC, and he was still farming his place in 1910.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, indexed under Oran L Pierce. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Lenora Ann Doster (1865-1937) in September 1887 and they had 5 children.

05/22/1838; Mecklenburg County, NC

01/21/1919; Union County, NC; burial in Marvin United Methodist Church Cemetery, Marvin, NC