Served in Company F, 12th Inf., South Carolina as Cpl

Residence Stanly County NC; 26 years old. Enlisted on 8/8/1862 at Wake County, NC as a Private. On 8/8/1862 he mustered into "B" Co. NC 5th Infantry He died of disease as POW on 11/7/1863 at Point Lookout, MD (Died of "smallpox") He was listed as: * POW 7/1/1863 Gettysburg, PA * Confined 7/7/1863 Fort Delaware, DE * Transferred 9/15/1863 Point Lookout, MD (Estimated day) Sources used: - North Carolina Troops 1861-65, A Roster Residence was not listed; Enlisted on 9/1/1861 as a Corporal. On 9/1/1861 he mustered into "F" Co. SC 12th Infantry He was Surrendered on 4/9/1865 at Appomattox Court House, VA (Estimated date of enlistment) Sources used: - Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records - Southern Historical Society Papers: Appomattox Paroles ANV

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Unit Details:

12th Infantry Regiment completed its organization in July, 1861, at Lightwoodknot Springs, near Columbia, South Carolina. The men were raised in the counties of Oconee, York, Lancaster, Kershaw, and Fairfield. It served on the South Carolina coast near Pocotaligo, then in April, 1862, moved to Virginia. Assigned to General Gregg's and McGowan's Brigade, the regiment fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from the Seven Days' Battles to Fredericksburg. During the Chancellorsville operations the 12th was detached to guard ordinance trains and prisoners. With 340 men it marched 2,000 Federals to Richmond. Later the unit rejoined the brigade and continued the conflict from Gettysburg to Cold Harbor, then saw action in the Petersburg trenches and the Appomattox Campaign. It lost 17 killed and 121 wounded at Gaines' Mill, fifty-four percent of 270 at Second Manassas, 20 killed and 82 wounded at Sharpsburg, and thirty-six percent of the 366 at Gettysburg. The regiment sustained 102 casualties at The Wilderness, 118 at Spotsylvania, 34 from May 12 to July 1, 1864, 18 at Deep Bottom, 26 at Fussell's Mill, and 23 at Poplar Springs Church. It surrendered 10 officers and 149 men. The field officers were Colonels Dixon Barnes, Edwin F. Bookter, Richard G.M. Dunovant, Cadwalader Jones, and John L. Miller; and Lieutenant Colonels T. Frank Clyburn, Henry C. Davis, and William H. McCorkle.