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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Leason D. Clodfelter

(c. 1815 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 47 year old wagoner living with William and Eliza Smith near Hamly's Creek in Davidson County, NC. He enlisted in Palmers, NC on 11 March 1862 and mustered on 15 April at Camp Mangum near Raleigh as a Private in Company H, 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 19 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 and was back with his company by February 1863. He was with them to at least October 1864 and was discharged for illness and age on 21 March 1865.

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.

He married Mary Magdalena Kepley (1810-1860) in May 1837 and they had a son John (1834-).

Birth

c. 1815; Davidson County, 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 34727]

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: #190 [AotW citation 34728]

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