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(c. 1837 - c. 1900)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted at Camp Alamance on 20 June 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 6th North Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his right hand, "a minny ball tearing off half my hand," and lost 2 or 3 fingers in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in Richmond, VA hospitals to 5 December 1862 then furloughed home for 60 days. He did not return to his company, being absent, recovering from his wound and illness, in North Carolina to at least October 1864, by which time he had applied for retirement due to disability. He was retired to the Invalid Corps on 15 January 1865 and formally paroled at Greensboro, NC on 13 May 1865.
After the War
In 1880 he was a farmer in Alamance County, NC. He applied for a Confederate pension for disability in Caswell County, NC in July 1885.
References & notes
His service from Iobst1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. The wound quote above from his 1885 pension application. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880.
He married Millie Ward (-1879) and they had 3 children between 1859 and 1871. He married again, Mary Turner (c. 1852-) in July 1881.
Birth
c. 1837; Caswell County, NC
Death
c. 1900; Leasburg, 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. 422 - 448 [AotW citation 6410]
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 34532]