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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Lafayette Merritt

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 19 year old student at Chapel Hill in Orange County, NC. He enlisted on 18 June 1861 at Fort Macon and mustered as a Private in Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 31 August.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the stomach in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg, and may have been captured there - he's listed on a parole of 27 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was furloughed home from a hospital in Staunton, VA on 8 October and he returned to his Company on 18 April 1863. He was again on furlough, sick, from 12 May 1863 to 2 February 1864, then detailed to the Quartermaster's Department in Hillsborough, NC to at least November 1864.

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Wilson.1 His service from the Roster2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Susan Purefoy (1845-) in May 1865 and they had a son William.

Birth

c. 1841; Chatham 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 9973]

2 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966-, Vol. VIII [AotW citation 10030]

3 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 31482]

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