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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Mathew A. Council

(c. 1835 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 27 year old farmer, he was conscripted and enlisted in Chatham County on 15 July 1862 as a Private in Company E, 5th North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds while a prisoner at Ft. Delaware on 14 December 1862.

References & notes

His service from Moore,1 as M.A. Council, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1835; Chatham County, NC

Death

12/14/1862; Ft. Delaware, DE

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. 1, pp. 167 - 175 [AotW citation 9797]

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 30253]

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