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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Benjamin B. Jackson

(c. 1828 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 34 year old farmer in Moore County, he enlisted in Wake County on 15 July 1862 as Private, Company E, 3rd North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 20 September 1862 at a US Army field hospital on or near the battlefield.

References & notes

His service from Moore,1 as B.B. Jackson, the Roster,2 who have his killed outright at Sharpsburg, and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Death detail also in a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862.

Birth

c. 1828; Moore County, NC

Death

09/20/1862; 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. 98 - 99 [AotW citation 6073]

2 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966- [AotW citation 25892]

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 30070]

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