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(1838 - 1864)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 21 year old farm worker on his parents' place at Hawfield in Orange County, NC. He enlisted on 15 May 1861 at Fort Macon and mustered as a Private in Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 31 August.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in the hip or thigh in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Corporal on 1 November 1863 and was again wounded in action on 5 May 1864 at the Wilderness, VA. He was in hospitals at Gordonsville and Lynchburg, VA to 9 May 1864, with no further record; presumed dead.
References & notes
Basic casualty information from Wilson.1 His service from the Roster2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Birth and (probable) death details from J.A. Graham's Descriptive Book of the Orange Guards among his Papers.4 Personal details from family genealogists, at least one having his death on 6 May 1864, and the US Census of 1860.
Birth
12/08/1838; Orange County, NC
Death
1864
1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9974]
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 10031]
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 31483]
4 Graham, James Augustus, and H.M. Wagstaff, editor, The James A. Graham Papers, 1861-1884, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1928, p. 260 [AotW citation 31484]