K. Thifton

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

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

He died at a field hospital near Sharpsburg, date not given. He was originally buried on the field at the "the northern edge of Stephen Grove's woods" and probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

Burial information from Pruett,1 as K. Thiaton. Basic service from the Roster.2

Date not known; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD