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(c. 1833 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 29, from Greensboro in Guilford County, he was conscripted there on 8 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company H, First North Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his left leg below the knee, and was captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was probably treated at a field hospital near the battlefield then admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 22 October with gangrene. His leg was amputated at the thigh on 15 November, but he died there on the 21st. He was originally buried "on west side of and in the cemetery [Mt. Olivet] at Frederick." His personal effects included $37 in Confederate money and a daguerrotype (photograph).
His father John filed for his final pay in September 1863.
After the War
He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1833
Death
11/21/1862; Frederick, 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 4954]
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 19084]
3 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 31570]
4 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 #1.210 [AotW citation 23013]