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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Washington D. Archer

(c. 1831 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 30, he enlisted on 19 June 1861 at Fort Macon, NC and mustered as Private, Company B, 27th North Carolina Infantry the next day.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the shoulder in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was killed in action on 13 December 1862 at Fredericksburg, VA.

After the War

His executor William Archer filed for his final pay of $17.61 in June 1863, and it was paid in November 1864.

References & notes

His service from Wilson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1831; Guilford County, NC

Death

12/13/1862; Fredericksburg, VA

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 9828]

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 32080]

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