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(c. 1842 - 1864)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A farmer, he enlisted at age 19 in Alamance County, NC in Company E, 6th North Carolina Infantry on 15 June 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.
The rest of the War
He was again wounded, in action at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and captured during the retreat at South Mountain, MD on 3 July. He was held at Fort Delaware until paroled and exchanged at City Point, VA on 1 August 1863. He died in McDowell County, NC on 12 February 1864.
References & notes
Basic information from Iobst1. Thanks to Devan Sommerville for scrubbing through the volume, extracting and transcribing the roster data for AotW.
Birth
c. 1842; Washington County, TN
Death
02/12/1864; McDowell County, NC
1 Iobst, Richard William, and Louis H. Manarin, Wade Lucas, The Bloody Sixth : the Sixth North Carolina Regiment, Confederate States of America, Raleigh: North Carolina Confederate Centennial Commission, 1965, pp. 355 - 373 [AotW citation 6356]