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(c. 1842 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was an 18 year old living with his parents and 5 siblings on their small farm near Lexington in Davidson County, NC. He enlisted there on 7 March 1862 and mustered on 15 April at Camp Mangum near Raleigh as a Private in Company B, 48th North Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was "slightly" wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He may have been captured and treated in a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD. He was listed as missing after Sharpsburg, did not return to his company, and was dropped from the rolls as a deserter about April 1864. There are no further military, POW, or hospital records in his military file and no later civilian record found. It is likely he died of wounds or disease in Frederick, MD in September 1862.
References & notes
His service from Moore1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, both as Emanuel R. Rickard. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
He married Sarah E Lambeth (1844-) in August 1860 and they had a daughter Ella (December 1862-July 1926).
Birth
c. 1842; Rowan County, NC
Death
09/1862; Frederick, MD
1 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 2, pp. 359 - 363 [AotW citation 6436]
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 34725]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #168 [AotW citation 34726]