Addison D. Burnett

A farmer's son, but recently orphaned, in 1860 he was an 18 year old living on his great-uncle Rhodes Nash Herndon's plantation (26 slaves, +36 in Florida) at Oxford in Granville County, NC. He enlisted in Chatham County, NC on 20 September 1861 and mustered near Raleigh on 17 October as a Private in Company D, 35th 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 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 hospital in Richmond, VA by 7 October, furloughed on 6 November, and formally exchanged to return to duty on 10 November 1862.

He was promoted to Corporal on 15 September 1863 and appointed 2nd Lieutenant on 11 January 1864. He was wounded by a gunshot to his chest and neck in action near Petersburg, VA in June 1864 and was furloughed for 40 days on 4 (or 11) July. He was wounded again at Petersburg, by a gunshot to his right arm, and captured in the hospital there on 25 March 1865. He was briefly a prisoner at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC, then held at Fort Delaware, where took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released on 17 June 1865.

By 1880 and to at least 1920 he was a farmer in Baldwin Township, Chatham County, NC. He was still living in Chatham County when he applied for a Confederate pension for disability in July 1921.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, indexed under Addison D Barnett. He's also on the Confederates in Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, 1880, 1900, & 1920, his 1921 pension application, and his widow's of 1929. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Eugenia Ann Norwood (1848-1891) in January 1868 and they had 7 children. He married again, "Bettie" (?, 1854-) in December 1896.

10/20/1842 in NC

04/20/1929; Chatham County, NC; burial in Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church Cemetery, Pittsboro, NC