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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Smith

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as a Private in the 3rd North Carolina Infantry, date and Company assignment unknown.

On the Campaign

He was probably killed or mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.

The rest of the War

He was originally buried "In Daniel Poffenbarger's out lot along the line fence between Poffenbarger [Poffenberger] and Marker" on the battlefield at Sharpsburg and probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett,1 as James Shinp. Basic service from the Roster.2

Death

Date not known; Sharpsburg, 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 4956]

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 24751]

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