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(1839 - 1887)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted on 16 April 1861 in Mecklenburg County, NC and mustered as a Private in Company B, First North Carolina Infantry. He mustered out with them on 12 November and enlisted again, at Camp Wyatt near present-day Carolina Beach, NC on 25 January 1862, and mustered in Wilmington, NC on 8 October as a Private in Company K, 30th North Carolina Infantry. He was temporarily appointed 5th Sergeant in February.
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 about 18 September, a prisoner at Fort Delaware, then transferred on 2 October to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was officially exchanged on 10 November 1862.
He was appointed Ordnance Sergeant of the regiment on 10 March 1864 and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
By 1870 he was a farmer at Wolfsville/Sandy Ridge, Union County, NC. In 1880 he was a school teacher there.
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 1870 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Ann Stevens (1843-1924) in December 1862 and they had 7 children.
Birth
05/11/1839; Mecklenburg County, NC
Death
10/25/1887; Union County, NC; burial in Marvin United Methodist Church Cemetery, Marvin, 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 34528]
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: #412 [AotW citation 34529]