(c. 1843 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 19, he enlisted as a Private in Company H, 15th North Carolina Infantry on 15 July 1862 in Raleigh.
On the Campaign
He was reported missing in action on 17 September 1862 but had probably been killed there.
The rest of the War
By December 1862 he was listed on muster rolls as "lost in battle at Sharpsburg Sept. 17 '62" and as absent without leave to September 1863, when he was dropped from the roll "supposed to be dead."
References & notes
Birth
c. 1843
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, 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. 1, pp. 571 - 579 [AotW citation 7559]
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 27747]