Served in Company F, 21st Inf., North Carolina as Pvt

Residence Stokes County NC; 29 years old. Enlisted on 7/25/1862 at Stokes County, NC as a Private. On 7/25/1862 he mustered into "F" Co. NC 21st Infantry (date and method of discharge not given) He was listed as: * Wounded 7/1/1863 Gettysburg, PA (Head) * POW 9/22/1864 Fisher's Hill, VA * Confined 9/24/1864 Point Lookout, MD (Estimated day) * Arrived 3/19/1865 Boulware's Wharf, VA (For exchange) * Paroled 3/19/1865 Point Lookout, MD Other Information: born 5/31/1833 died 6/1/1897 Buried: Bethel Bapt Cemty, Stokes Co., NC Sources used: - North Carolina Troops 1861-65, A Roster - Research provided by HDS subscriber

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Unit Details:

21st Infantry Regiment, formerly the 11th Volunteers, was a twelve company command organized at Danville, Virginia, in June, 1861. Men of this unit were recruited in Davidson, Surry, Forsyth, Stokes, Rockingham, and Guilford counties. It was assigned to General Trimble's, Hoke's, Godwin's, and W.G. Lewis' Brigade. After taking part in the Battle of First Manassas and Jackson's Valley operations, the 21st participated in many conflicts of the army from the Seven Days' Battles to Bristoe. It was then involved in the engagements at Plymouth, Drewry's Bluff, and Cold Harbor, marched with Early to the Shenandoah Valley, and saw action around Appomattox. The unit sustained 80 casualties at First Winchester, 13 at Cross Keys and Port Republic, 45 during the Seven Days' Battles, 51 at Groveton, 18 at Sharpsburg, and 24 at Fredericksburg. It lost 78 at Chancellorsville, twenty-eight percent of the 436 at Gettysburg, and 52 at Plymouth. In April, 1865, it surrendered with 6 officers and 117 men of which 40 were armed. The field officers were Colonels Saunders Fulton, B.Y. Graves, James M. Leach, Rufus K. Pepper, William S. Rankin, and William L. Scott; and Majors James F. Beall, Alex. Miller, W.J. Pfohl, and J.M. Richardson.