[no picture yet]

Confederate (CSV)

Private

William D. Lipe

(c. 1844 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 15 year old living with his older brother Joseph, a blacksmith at Statesville, NC. He enlisted in Salisbury, NC on 15 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 48th 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 18 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862 to return to duty, but still listed as absent, sick into June 1863, the latest record in his military file.

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 the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1844

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 34721]

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: #70 [AotW citation 34722]

« Search for another Person