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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Jeremiah Adolphus Shuping

(c. 1844 - 1864)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 49th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A blacksmith's son, going by Adolphus, in 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his parents and 10 siblings at China Grove in Rowan County, NC. He enlisted at Statesville in Iredell County, NC on 1 March 1862 and mustered at Camp Mangum near Raleigh on 21 April as a Private in Company E, 49th 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 admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 12 October and furloughed for 30 days on 8 November. He was formally exchanged on 10 November and returned to duty in January or February 1863. He was mortally wounded by a piece of shell in the trenches at Petersburg, VA on 15 December 1864 and died in a Petersburg hospital the next day.

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.

Birth

c. 1844; Rowan County, NC

Death

12/16/1864; Petersburg, VA; burial in Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg, VA

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 34766]

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: #123 [AotW citation 34767]

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