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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Allison Simpson

(1844 - 1909)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a farm overseer, in 1860 he was a 15 year old farm worker living with his father and 2 younger siblings at Walkersville in Union County, NC. He enlisted on 19 March 1862 at Wilson's Store in Union County and mustered as a Private in Company F, 48th North Carolina Infantry on 19 April.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 by a gunshot through his right hip that fractured his pelvic bone, and was captured there.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 22 October, sent on to Baltimore on the 25th, and on to Aikens' Landing, VA the same day (exchanged on 10 November). He was in a hospital in Petersburg, VA from 18 February 1863 to 1 March, then home on furlough to 9 April and again from 11 May to 1 July 1863. He was wounded again, at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864 and was promoted to 5th Sergeant on 1 September 1864. He was captured at Hatcher's Run, VA on 25 March 1865 and held at Point Lookout, MD until released after taking an oath of allegiance there on 20 June 1865.

After the War

By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer back in Union County, NC.

References & notes

His service basics from Moore,1 as E.A. Simpson, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, also as Ellison A. Simpson, Allison S. Simpson, and C.A. Simpson. Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR 3 (as 49th NC Infantry) and the Patient List.4 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, & 1900, also as Ellison Simpson. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Esther Caroline Walker (1849-1927) in December 1866 and they had 15 children.

Birth

08/03/1844 in NC

Death

01/15/1909; in NC; burial in Tirzah Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Waxhaw, NC

Notes

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. 3, pp. 376 - 380  [AotW citation 6497]

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 32045]

3   Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 226  [AotW citation 32046]

4   National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #1.205  [AotW citation 32047]