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(1841 - 1918)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 20, he enlisted in Greensboro, NC on 28 February 1862 and mustered as Private, Company B, 27th North Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his thigh and arm and was captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 12 October, sent to GH #7 there on the 14th, and later sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore, where he was held until exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was wounded again, in the head at Cold Harbor, VA on 3 June 1864. He returned to duty about 1 October and was detailed as a teamster. He was paroled at Greensboro, NC on 13 May 1865.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer in Guilford County, NC. In 1900 he was in the cotton business in Asheville, NC and was a cotton dyer in a mill there in 1910.
References & notes
His service from Wilson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Hospital detail from the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Edna Jane Forbes (1846-1880) in Guilford County in January 1868 and they had 5 children. He married again, Julia A Cannon (1862-1910) and they had 7 sons. He married, thirdly, Hester Bugg (1882-) in August 1909 and they had a daughter Geneva, who died at 1 year old.
Birth
12/23/1841; Guilford County, NC
Death
10/27/1918; White Oak Heights, NC; burial in Alamance Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Greensboro, NC
1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9838]
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 32088]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #0; 771 [AotW citation 32090]