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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Hector McL. Campbell

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 38th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 17 year old farm worker living with his mother and 5 younger siblings on their small farm near Montrose in Cumberland County, NC. He enlisted there on 15 February 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 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 admitted to General Hospital #24 in Richmond, VA with phthisis (pulmonary tuberculosis) on 6 October and died there on 13 November 1862.

His family filed a claim for his final pay in February 1864.

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. 1843; Cumberland County, NC

Death

11/13/1862; Richmond, VA

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 34619]

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: #147 [AotW citation 34620]

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