Edward Dudley Hall

He was elected to the state legislature in 1846 and in 1850 was a manufacturer in turpentine and other businesses living with his parents and 3 siblings in Wilmington, NC. He served 8 years as County Sheriff 1852 - 1860, by which time he was a substantial citizen of Wilmington and owner of 6 slaves.

In April 1861 he raised a company of soldiers and was appointed Captain, North Carolina State Troops, and assigned to the 2nd Infantry (Colonel C.C. Tew) in May or June 1861. In August he was commissioned Major of the 7th North Carolina Infantry and in March 1862, after distinguishing himself in action at New Bern, was elected Colonel of the 46th North Carolina Infantry on its organization at Camp Magnum, near Raleigh, NC.

He led his regiment in Maryland and assumed command of the brigade from the wounded Colonel Manning in the West Woods at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was elected Sheriff of New Hanover County, NC and resigned his commission on 31 December 1863 to take that post.

Back in North Carolina he continued as Sheriff and was elected to the State Senate in 1866. He was the unsuccessful candidate for Lieutenant-Governor in 1868, and by 1870 he was a wealthy insurance agent in Wilmington. In 1880 he was a justice of the peace, was elected Mayor of Wilmington in 1883, and chief of police there in 1887.

Basic biographical information from Confederate Military History1. His service from the Report of the North Carolina Convention and Military Board (26 June 1861), online from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1850-1880, and his bio sketch in the NCPedia. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph owned by descendant Jeremiah Partrick and published in Greg Mast's State Troops and Volunteers, A Photographic Record of North Carolina's Civil War Soldiers (Volume 1, 1995).

He married Susan Hill Lane (-1850) in 1845 and they had a son. He married again, Sally London Green (1837-1888) in November 1858 and they had 5 children.

09/27/1823; Wilmington, NC

06/11/1896; Wilmington, NC; burial in Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, NC