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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Laomi Reeves

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From Duplin County, he enlisted as Private, Company B, 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 15 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 22 October with a "fracture" but died there of wounds on 6 November 1862. He was originally buried "on west side of and in the [Mt. Olivet] cemetery at Frederick" and probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett,1 with service detail from Moore,2 both as L. Reeves. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 He may still be at Mt Olivet and has 2 stones there [via Findagrave].

Birth

c. 1842; Duplin, NC

Death

11/06/1862; 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 4923]

2   Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 1, pg. 87  [AotW citation 5982]

3   National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #5.288  [AotW citation 24910]