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(c. 1836 - 1865)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A brick maker's son, in 1860 he was a 24 year old mason living with his parents and 8 siblings at Greensboro, NC. He enlisted there on 6 May 1862 and mustered as Private, Company B, 27th North Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the left arm, his bone broken, in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 28 September by then "doing well, general health good" and was furloughed for 30 days on 3 October. He was captured at Fort Stedman, VA on 25 March 1865 and imprisoned at Point Lookout, MD where he died of "diarrhoea" on 31 May 1865.
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 gravesite is on Findagrave; he may have been reinterred later in the Buffalo Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Greensboro, NC.
He married Lucy Jane Webb (1844-1922) in May 1860.
Birth
c. 1836; Guilford County, NC
Death
05/31/1865; Point Lookout, MD
1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9831]
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 32082]