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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John W. Phillips

(1829 - 1900)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 33, he was conscripted in Raleigh, NC on 15 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 3rd North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and "sent to the rear."

The rest of the War

He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 7 October and furloughed for 300 days on October 9, but never returned to his company and was eventually listed as a deserter to date from 1 February 1863.

References & notes

His service from Moore1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

11/08/1829

Death

04/09/1900; burial in Fair Promise United Methodist Church Cemetery, Glendon, NC

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 6079]

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 34433]

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