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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Archibald Gilchrist McGirt

(1842 - 1890)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 46th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 19 year old farmer, he enlisted at McLean's Crossroads, NC on 21 February 1862 and mustered at Camp Mangum near Raleigh on 16 April as a Private in Company D, 46th 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, was admitted to the US Army General Hospital in Chester, PA on 2 October, and was afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 24 October to 15 December, when he was sent to City Point, VA for exchange, arriving on the 18th. Except for brief hospital stays in 1863 and 1864, he was with his company to the end of the war, surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, NC on 1 May 1865.

After the War

In 1880 he was a store clerk in Wilmington, 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 family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary E Buford (1855-1947) and they had 4 children.

Birth

08/05/1842; Robeson County, NC

Death

08/22/1890; Wilmington, NC; burial in Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, 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 34678]

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: #403 [AotW citation 34679]

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