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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Rufus B. Gibson

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a fairly wealthy 19 year old (orphan?) living with prosperous merchant R.M. Sloan and his family (and 7 slaves) at Greensboro in Guilford County, NC. He enlisted at Fort Macon, NC on 20 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 20 June.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was sent to Fort Delaware and sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange on 2 October. He as formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was promoted to Corporal by June 1864 and was elected First Lieutenant on 3 December 1864. He was on a furlough from 23 February and was paroled at Greensboro, NC in April 1865.

References & notes

His service from Wilson1 and his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1841; Guilford County, NC

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 9842]

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 32095]

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