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(1843 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Son of a blacksmith, in 1860 he was a 17 year old hireling (laborer) living with his parents and 4 siblings at Newmarket in Randolph County, NC. He was conscripted in Raleigh, NC on 17 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 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 was sent to a CS hospital in Winchester, VA, but died there of wounds on 1 (or 7) October 1862.
References & notes
His service from Moore1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as A.G. Vancanner.
His brother William was also wounded at Sharpsburg, but survived the battle. He probably did not survive the war.
Birth
09/23/1843; Randolph County, NC
Death
10/01/1862; Winchester, VA; burial in Stonewall Confederate Cemetery, Winchester, VA
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. 109 - 111 [AotW citation 6162]
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 34470]