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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Thomas Phillips, III

(c. 1836 - 1879)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 38th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 23 year old farmer living next door to his parents' prosperous place (11 slaves) at Mount Olive in Duplin County, NC. He enlisted there on 1 October 1861 and mustered on 31 December at Camp Mangum near Raleigh as a Private in Company A, 38th North Carolina Infantry. He was sick in a hospital in August 1862.

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 in a Richmond, VA hospital from 9 to 25 October and was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862.

He was promoted to 2nd Corporal on 4 August 1863 and served with his company until he was surrendered and paroled with them at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

By 1870 he was a farmer near Kenansville in Duplin County, NC.

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 the US Census of 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah C. "Sallie" Boyette (1844-) in December 1865.

Birth

c. 1836; Duplin County, NC

Death

04/10/1879; Duplin County, NC; burial in Phillips Cemetery, Warsaw, 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 34604]

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: #115 [AotW citation 34605]

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