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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Rufus Langston

(c. 1824 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 35th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 36 year old farmer with a small place near Goldsboro in Wayne County, NC. He enlisted there on 11 October 1861, giving his age as 40, and mustered near Raleigh on 29 October as a Private in Company I, 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 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 8 October, transferred to Scottsville, VA, and was discharged for disability and being over-age on 15 December 1862.

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 1850 & 1860.

He married Delpha Howell (1822-) in April 1851 and they had a son, Daniel (1851-1905).

Birth

c. 1824; Wayne County, NC

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 34582]

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: #259 [AotW citation 34583]

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