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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Wilton Vaughan

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From Caroline County, VA, he enlisted in Fredericksburg, VA on 1 February 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 30th Virginia 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 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 11 October and was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862.

He was captured again, at Petersburg, VA on 1 April 1865 and a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD until 21 June 1865, when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2

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 34540]

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: #72 [AotW citation 34541]

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