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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Lewis S. Phillips

(c. 1828 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 34, from 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 by a gunshots to his left ankle and left side in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and he was captured there.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 29 September, but died there on 30 (or 29) October 1862.

References & notes

His service from Moore,1 as L.S. Phillips, and the Roster.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 3 and the MSHWR.4 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1828; Moore County, NC

Death

10/30/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, 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 6080]

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 25932]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #5.298 [AotW citation 25933]

4 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 174-175 [AotW citation 31603]

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