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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Cornelius Tyson

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farmer living with his parents, 11 siblings, and paternal grandmother on their farm at Fayetteville in Cumberland County, NC. He enlisted there on 29 May 1861 and mustered the same day as a Private in Company C, 3rd North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He appears on a parole list of 27 September 1862, but on no other Federal prisoner of war or hospital documentation. His company thought him a deserter, as he was not heard from after Sharpsburg.

References & notes

His service from Moore,1 who says he was killed outright at Sharpsburg, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1840 in NC

Death

09/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

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 6032]

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 34409]

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