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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Hinton Monk

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 24th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 23, from Person County, he mustered as Private, Company A, 24th North Carolina Infantry on 7 March 1862 in Person County. He was captured in action at Malvern Hill, VA on 1 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was probably captured in Maryland in September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died in Frederick, MD on 9 (or 14) October 1862, cause not given. He was originally buried "along the west side and in cemetery [Mt Olivet?] at Frederick [Maryland]". Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett,1 who has him as Hints Monk. Service from the Roster 2 via the Historical Data Systems database. Personal details from family genealogists. His memorial in Mt Olivet is on Findagrave, and he may still be buried there.

Birth

c. 1839; Person County, NC

Death

10/09/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

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 4863]

2 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- [AotW citation 19331]

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