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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Alfred Francis Coble

(1838 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farmer living with his parents, siblings, and 3 slaves on their place at Greensboro in Guilford County, NC. He enlisted on 4 May 1861 at Fort Macon, NC and mustered as Private, Company B, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 20 June.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from Wilson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave.

His brother Robert, also in Company B of the 27th Infantry, died earlier in the Maryland Campaign, at Frederick, MD.

Birth

11/30/1838; Guildford County, NC

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9824]

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 32073]

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