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(c. 1840 - ?)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A farmer in Yancey County, he enlisted at age 21 in Charlotte, NC in Company E, 6th North Carolina Infantry on 28 May 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.
The rest of the War
He transferred to Company K, 58th North Carolina Infantry on 31 March 1863, and was present at rank of Sergeant as of April 1863. He was captured in action at Wildcat, KY on 1 August 1863. He had later service in Company B, 5th North Carolina Cavalry and 63rd Regiment NC State Troops.
References & notes
Basic information from Iobst1. Details from family genealogists, one of whom has his birthday as 1 January 1838. Thanks to Devan Sommerville for scrubbing through the volume, extracting and transcribing the roster data for AotW.
Birth
c. 1840; Yancey 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 6359]