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(1833 - 1908)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 26 year old carpenter living with his widowed mother Tabitha and 2 sisters at Greensboro in Guilford County, NC. He enlisted there on 28 April 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 27th North Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the side in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was back with his company by November 1862. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 February 1865 and was captured at Sutherland's Station, VA on 2 April. He was held at Hart's Island in New York Harbor to 19 June, when he took an oath of allegiance and was released.
After the War
He went to Denver in 1865 and by 1870 was a carpenter in Pueblo, CO. In 1880 he was a farmer in Fremont County, CO, and by 1900 was farming in Cortez, CO and living with his youngest son George.
References & notes
His service from Wilson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, as Stephen D Winbourne. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Jane Elizabeth "Molly" Baldridge (1854-1940) in March 1871 in Colorado and they had 5 sons.
Birth
03/15/1833; Greensboro, NC
Death
01/22/1908; Cortez, CO; burial in Cortez Cemetery, Cortez, CO
1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9840]
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 32092]