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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Henry House

(c. 1838 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 38th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 22 year old farm worker living with his parents, 3 siblings, and at least 8 slaves on their farm at Newton Grove in Sampson County, NC. He enlisted there on 18 October 1861 and mustered on 16 January 1862 at Camp Mangum near Raleigh as a Private in Company C, 38th North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was left behind "on the march in Maryland" and probably sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD. He died there of disease on 9 September 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 1860.

Birth

c. 1838; Sampson County, NC

Death

09/09/1862; Frederick, MD

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 34612]

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: #419 [AotW citation 34613]

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