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(1842 - 1863)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A farmer in Orange County, he enlisted at age 18 in Charlotte, NC in Company F, 6th North Carolina Infantry on 28 May 1861. He was wounded in action at Malvern Hill, VA on 1 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was captured at Hagerstown, MD on 16 September 1862.
The rest of the War
Exchanged at Aiken's Landing, VA on 10 November 1862. He was mortally wounded in action at Chancellorsville, VA on 4 May 1863 and died of wounds in Richmond, VA on 27 May 1863.
References & notes
Birth
1842; Orange County, NC
Death
05/27/1863; Richmond, VA; burial in Bradshaw Cemetery, Graham, 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 6362]