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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Henry Harrison Frye

(1842 - 1872)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 35th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an 18 year old living with his parents, 5 siblings, and 2 slaves on their farm near Carthage in Moore County, NC. He enlisted there on 12 September 1861 and mustered near Raleigh on 6 November as a Private in Company C, 35th 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 and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged to return to duty on 10 November 1862. He was wounded in action at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862 and again, by a gunshot, in June 1864, place not given. He was listed as absent without leave in December 1864, the latest record in his military file.

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. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elizabeth Cameron (1853-1918) in March 1870 and they had 2 children.

Birth

10/01/1842; Moore County, NC

Death

12/11/1872; Lamar County, MS; burial in Nelson Cemetery, Lamar County, MS

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 34578]

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: #18 [AotW citation 34579]

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