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(c. 1835 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 27, from Montgomery County, he was conscripted and enlisted as a Private in Company D, 14th North Carolina Infantry on 16 July 1862 in Raleigh.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the thigh and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His leg was amputated but he died of wounds in a US hospital in December 1862 in Frederick, MD. He was originally buried "in Rev. J. J. Adams town lot, back of the M. E. Graveyard" in the town of Sharpsburg. His widow Lucy filed for his final pay in June 1863.
After the War
He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1835
Death
12/1862; 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 4987]
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. 523 [AotW citation 5873]
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 30264]