Served in Company B, 13th Inf., North Carolina as Pvt

Residence Davidson County NC; 18 years old. Enlisted on 3/1/1864 at Mecklenburg County, NC as a Private. On 3/1/1864 he mustered into "B" Co. NC 13th Infantry (date and method of discharge not given) He was listed as: * Wounded (date and place not stated) * Absent wounded 9/30/1864 (place not stated) * Returned 4/1/1865 (place not stated) * POW 4/2/1865 Petersburg, VA * Confined 4/4/1865 Point Lookout, MD (Estimated day) * Oath of Allegiance 6/13/1865 Point Lookout, MD Other Information: born 3/24/1845 in Davidson County, NC died 10/1/1917 in Bolton, MS Buried: Bolton Cemetery, Bolton, MS Sources used: - North Carolina Troops 1861-65, A Roster - Mississippi Confederate Grave Registry

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Unit Details:

13th Infantry Regiment, formerly the 3rd Volunteers, was organized at Garysburg, North Carolina, in May, 1861, with 1,100 men. Its members were recruited in Caswell, Mecklenburg, Davie, Edgecombe, and Rockingham counties. Ordered to Virginia, the unit was assigned to General Colston's, Garland's, Pender's, and Scales' Brigade. It shared in the many campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia from Williamsburg to Cold Harbor, endured the battles and hardships of the Petersburg trenches south of the James River, and took part in the Appomattox operations. This regiment totalled 575 effectives in April, 1862, lost 29 killed and 80 wounded during the Seven Days' Battles, and had 41 killed and 149 wounded in the Maryland Campaign. It reported 37 casualties at Fredericksburg and 216 at Chancellorsville. Of the 232 engaged at Gettysburg, more than seventy-five percent were disabled. It surrendered 22 officers and 193 men. The field officers were Colonels Joseph H. Hyman, William D. Pender, and Alfred M. Scales; Lieutenant Colonels W.S. Guy, Henry A. Rogers, Thomas Ruffin, Jr., and E. Benton Withers; and Majors John T. Hambrick, D.H. Hamilton, Jr., and T.A. Martin.