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(1841 - 1922)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 17 year old on his parents' farm at Chapel Hill in Orange County, NC. He enlisted on 3 March 1862 at age 20 in Hillsborough, NC and mustered as a Private in Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the arm in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.
The rest of the War
He returned to his Company on 4 March 1863. He was wounded again, at Bristoe Station, VA on 14 October 1863 and furloughed to 31 January 1864. He was very ill in hospitals in Richmond and Farmville, VA hospital from April to July 1864, then furloughed for 60 days. He was captured on 4 April 1865 at Sutherland's Station, VA. He was held at Point Lookout, MD until taking the Oath of Allegiance on 21 June 1865.
After the War
By 1880 he was a farmer at Hillsborough, NC. In 1910 he was a farm laborer on the James Walden place in Williamson County, TX and by 1920 had retired and boarded with the Waldens.
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 the US Census of 1860, 1880, 1910, & 1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Temperance T. Smith (1848-) in August 1869 in Orange County, NC and they had 5 children by 1880.
Birth
11/11/1841; Orange County, NC
Death
06/19/1922; Williamson County, TX; burial in Pond Springs Cemetery, Jollyville, Williamson County, TX
1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9981]
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 10054]
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 31496]