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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Lovick Lambeth Prather

(1838 - 1887)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 21 year old teacher living with his parents and 8 siblings on their modest farm at Greensboro in Guilford County, NC. He enlisted on 1 August 1861 at Fort Macon, NC and mustered as Private, Company B, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 20 June.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his arm in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, which broke the radius (forearm) bone.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 28 September and furloughed home on 3 October. He was discharged on 26 March 1863 for disability, but probably had later war service in local defense or other light duty units.

After the War

In 1870 he was a farmer in Guilford County but by 1880 was a physician and surgeon at Casa in Perry County, AR.

References & notes

His service from Wilson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, as Lovett L. Prather. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

01/28/1838; Guildford County, NC

Death

08/19/1887; Perry County, AR; burial in Casa Cemetery, Casa, AR

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 9836]

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 32087]

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