Balaam B. Mustin

In 1860 he was a 37 year old farmer and tanner at Danbury in Stokes County, NC. He enlisted in Forsyth County, NC on 18 March 1862 and mustered on 16 April at Camp Mangum near Raleigh as a Private in Company K, 48th North Carolina Infantry.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

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 furloughed from a Richmond, VA hospital on 5 November, formally exchanged on 10 November, and was back with his company by February 1863. He was sick in a hospital in Richmond, VA in February and March 1865 and furloughed home for 60 days with no later military record.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer near Morton's Lime Kiln/Yadkin Township in Stokes County, NC.

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 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha Westmoreland (1817-) in February 1845 and they had 3 children.

c. 1822; Stokes County, NC

Date not known; Stokes County, NC; burial in Trinity United Methodist Church Cemetery, King, NC