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(c. 1840 - 1863)
Home State: Virginia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 40th Virginia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 20 year old laborer in Northumberland County, VA. He enlisted on 26 May 1861 at Heathsville, VA and mustered as a Private in Company G, 40th Virginia 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 Richmond, VA hospital on 17 October, formally exchanged on 10 November, and returned to duty on 1 December 1862. He was killed in action at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863.
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; he's also seen as Norville H. Wilson.
He married Winnifred Ann Berry (1838-1915) in December 1858 and they had a daughter Mary (b. 1862).
Birth
c. 1840; Northumberland County, VA
Death
05/03/1863; Chancellorsville, VA
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 34644]
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: #245 [AotW citation 34645]