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(1833 - 1897)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
From Moore County, he was conscripted and enrolled in Company C, 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 20 June 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his left leg and captured in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.
The rest of the War
He was exchanged in February 1863.
More on the Web
See a letter he wrote home in August 1862, transcribed and hosted online by Griff at Spared & Shared.
Birth
10/23/1833
Death
12/25/1897; burial in Bethesda Cemetery, Aberdeen, NC
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. 89 - 92 [AotW citation 6027]