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(c. 1839 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
At age 23 he was conscripted and enlisted from Alamance County on 15 July 1862 as a Private in Company B, First North Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the "White House" hospital on the Line farm at Sharpsburg, but died there of wounds before 2 October 1862. He was originally buried "west of George Line's house in his new ground along side of an old white oak tree near his pond and north of the road leading to his house" on the battlefield at Sharpsburg.
After the War
He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Burial information from Pruett.1 Service details from Moore2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Hospital detail from a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862, which has him in the 1st NC Cavalry.
Birth
c. 1839
Death
09/00/1862; Sharpsburg, 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 5006]
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. 12 [AotW citation 9806]
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 30046]