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(1835 - 1901)
Home State: North Carolina
Education: University of North Carolina, Class of 1855
Command Billet: Company Officer
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was in Edgecombe County, NC. and was commissioned Captain of Company G of the 13th Regiment on 1 May 1861.
On the Campaign
He was in command at Sharpsburg on 17 September in place of Lieutenant Colonel Ruffin, who had been wounded on South Mountain on the 14th.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Major of the Regiment on 15 October 1862, and to Lieutenant Colonel to date from 6 March 1863. He was promoted to Colonel in June 1863 after Colonel Scales was made Brigadier General. He was wounded in action on 1 July of that year at Gettysburg while in command of the regiment and was with them through the rest of the war to the surrender at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
By 1870 he was a farmer in Clarke County, MS but in 1880 he was a land agent at Stephenville in Erath County, TX. He had retired there by 1900.
References & notes
Birth
03/24/1835; Tarboro, NC
Death
02/06/1901; Stephenville, TX; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Fort Worth, TX
1 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, pp. 471, 494 [AotW citation 1039]
2 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 33126]