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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Thaddeus Sylvester Wilkinson

(1828 - 1876)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company A, 7th North Carolina Infantry, dates and places not found.

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 about 18 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 10 October and was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862.

He received pay on 13 March 1863 in Richmond, VA with no later military record.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, indexed under G.S. Wilkenson. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

01/28/1828; Cabarrus County, NC

Death

10/23/1876; Cabarrus County, NC; burial in Saint Enoch Lutheran Church Cemetery, Kannapolis, 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 34909]

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: #135 [AotW citation 34910]

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