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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Crawford E. Musgrave

(c. 1837 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 22 year old farmer living with his widowed mother and 4 siblings at Falling Creek in Wayne County, NC. He was conscripted on 15 July 1862 in Raleigh, NC and mustered as a Private in Company D, 3rd North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He appears on a list of paroled prisoners dated 27 September, but there are no further Federal prisoner or hospital records, and he was never heard from again.

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.

His brother Louis (1838-1906) was also in Company D and with him in Maryland until about 12 September, when he was left in a Frederick, MD hospital and captured.

Birth

c. 1837; Wayne County, 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. 94 - 97 [AotW citation 6055]

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 34424]

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