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(c. 1840 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Son of a successful tailor, in 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his parents and 6 younger siblings in Hillsborough, NC. Giving his age as 20 and occupation clerk, he enlisted on 20 April 1861 as a Sergeant in the Orange Guards, later Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry. He was reduced to Private on 8 May 1861 but restored to 5th Sergeant on 1 February 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the leg in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.
The rest of the War
He died at Samuel Beeler's house at Sharpsburg on 19 September and was originally buried "in Samuel Beeler's barn field along the fence, running east from the barn" near the battlefield at Sharpsburg. His father Levin filed a claim for his final pay in May 1864.
After the War
He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1840; Hillsborough, NC
Death
09/19/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD
1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4606]
2 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9847]
3 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966-, Vol. VIII [AotW citation 10025]
4 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 31472]