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(1818 - 1881)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 42 year old carpenter at Cypress Creek 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.
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 afterward in a Richmond, VA hospital and was discharged for being over-age on 4 November 1862.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Hallsville/Limestone in Duplin County, NC.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, indexed under John B Shuffield. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860-1880; he usually gave his name as John B Shuffield. His father's mother was Barbara Boney. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Irish-born Margaret Hart (1821-1887) and they had a son Lincoln LaFayette (1855-1924).
Birth
08/10/1818; Duplin County, NC
Death
02/09/1881; Duplin County, NC; burial in Sheffield Cemetery, Duplin County, NC
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 34606]
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: #130 [AotW citation 34607]