(1832 - 1864)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A merchant in Alamance County, he enlisted at age 28 in Charlotte, NC in Company F, 6th North Carolina Infantry on 28 May 1861. He mustered in as First Sergeant.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.
The rest of the War
He was elected Junior 2nd Lieutenant to rank from 16 July 1862. He was killed in action at Cold Harbor, VA on 7 June 1864.
References & notes
Basic information from Iobst1. Birth date from family genealogists. Thanks to Devan Sommerville for scrubbing through the volume, extracting and transcribing the roster data for AotW.
Birth
03/15/1832; Orange County, NC
Death
06/07/1864; Cold Harbor, VA
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 6361]