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(1842 - 1922)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was an 18 year old farm worker living with his widowed mother Lydia, a seamstress, and grandmother Anna Hutspeth in Raleigh, Wake County, NC. He was conscripted there on 15 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 3rd North Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD on 10 September, left behind, and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to at least 18 September, then at the US Army General Hospital in Chester, PA. He was sent to Fort Delaware on 17 October, transferred to Fortress Monroe, VA on 15 December, and then to Aikens' Landing, VA the next day for exchange.
He was wounded in action by a gunshot to his left hand at Belle Grove, VA on 19 October 1864 and again, in the foot, at Mine Run/Payne's Farm, VA on 27 or 28 November. He was captured at Farmville, VA on 6 April 1865. He was a prisoner at Newport News, VA until 27 June 1865, when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.
After the War
In 1870 he was a farm laborer in Wake County, NC but by 1880 and to at least 1900 had his own farm at Barton's Creek in Wake County. He had retired there by 1910.
References & notes
His service from Moore,1 who says he was captured at Sharpsburg on 17 September, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Ailsey B. Adams (1844-1911) in April 1866 and they had 6 children.
Birth
05/09/1842 in NC
Death
08/25/1922; Raleigh, NC; burial in Hutspeth Cemetery, Raleigh, NC
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. 112 - 114 [AotW citation 6175]
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 34472]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #46 [AotW citation 34473]