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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Allen W. Phillips

(1832 - 1900)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 29, 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 by a gunshot to his head 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 4 October and furloughed for 30 days on 9 October 1862. He was in hospitals or home on furlough to at least 4 December 1863, when he was detailed as a bridge guard in Raleigh, NC. He was on detail in a hospital in Lynchburg, VA May -September 1864, back with his company in October, but again in a Richmond hospital due to his Sharpsburg wound on 24 December. He returned to duty on 24 March 1865 and was captured at Burkeville/Farmville, VA on 6 April 1865, and afterward a prisoner at Newport News, VA until 27 June, when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

References & notes

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

Birth

10/19/1832

Death

02/03/1900; 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. 99 - 102 [AotW citation 6082]

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 34434]

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