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(c. 1833 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 27 year old farmer with a small place in the Lower Richlands District of Onslow County, NC. He enlisted there on 6 September 1861 and mustered as Private, Company A, 35th North Carolina Infantry on 17 October.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was treated at US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD, but died there of wounds on 8 October 1862. He was originally buried "on west side of and in the [Mt. Olivet] cemetery at Frederick."
After the War
He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Burial information from Pruett,1 who has him as E.T. Shiver. His service from the Roster 2 and his Compiled Service Record, online via fold3.3 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.4 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. He has a stone at Mt. Olivet Cemetery and may still be there.
He married Mary Jane Andrews (1838-1927) in December 1855 and they had 3 children.
Birth
c. 1833; Onslow County, NC
Death
10/08/1862; 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 4957]
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 26113]
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 34577]
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 #9.603 [AotW citation 26114]