Paul Washington Crutchfield

In 1860 he was a 15 year old laborer living with his laborer father and siblings at Graham in Alamance County, NC. He enlisted at Greensboro, NC on 1 June 1862 as a substitute for B.L. Smith and mustered in Chester, NC as a Private in Company B, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 6 June.

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

He was sent to Fort Delaware on 22 September and paroled there and sent to Aikens' Landing, VA on 2 October for exchange. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 18 October then furloughed home. He was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was captured again, in action at Bristoe Station, VA on 14 October 1863, and briefly at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, SC, then confined at Point Lookout, MD from 28 October until he was exchanged on 13 February 1865. He was at Camp Lee near Richmond, VA by 17 February. He was paroled at Greensboro on 1 May 1865.

By 1870 he was a railroad agent back in Graham, NC but in 1880 was a clerk in a tobacco factory in Winston, Forsyth County, NC. In 1900 he was a bookkeeper there and in 1910 a bank manager. He moved to Greensboro in about 1912 and died there two years later at not quite 70 years old.

His service from Wilson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha Stark Green (1847-1911) in 1868 and they had 4 children.

01/1845; White Cross, NC

12/20/1914; Greensboro, NC; burial in Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, NC