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(1835 - 1907)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Artillery
Unit: Manly's (NC) Battery
Before Sharpsburg
From Wake County, he enlisted in (then) Ramseur's Battery in 1861 and first saw combat in Virginia in Spring 1861.
On the Campaign
He was in action with the Battery at Sharpsburg.
The rest of the War
He served through the War to the surrender at Appomattox Court House.
After the War
He was briefly a farmer and railroad section master in Wake County, North Carolina, before moving to Raleigh in 1875 and going into the foundry and machine manufacturing business as Allen & Cram.
References & notes
Biographical information and his presence at Sharpsburg from the Military History1. Business information from a Raleigh City Directory for 1883.
Birth
03/09/1835
Death
1907; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, NC
1 Evans, Clement Anselm, editor, Confederate Military History, 12 Volumes, Atlanta: The Confederate Publishing Company, 1899, Vol. 4 (NC), pp. 357, 358 [AotW citation 10089]