[no picture yet]

Confederate (CSV)

Private

Hugh Rufus Forbis

(1834 - 1863)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

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 and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

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 formally exchanged on 10 November and was promoted to Corporal on 20 December. He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his hip at Bristoe Station, VA on 14 October 1863 and admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 19 October. He died there of his wounds on 27 (or 28) October 1863.

References & notes

His service from Wilson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

11/07/1834 in NC

Death

10/27/1863; Richmond, VA; burial in Alamance Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Greensboro, 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 9844]

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 32096]

« Search for another Person