The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.

Thursday, August 14, 2014

N.C. Confederates Buried at Arlington-- Part 15

CARLOS ELPHONSE LOWRANCE, Co. E, 57th N.C.:  Farmer and part-time teacher.  Enlisted July 4, 1862, at age 31 for war.  Present or accounted for through Oct. 31, 1863.

Wounded and captured at Rappahannock Station, Va., on Nov. 7, 1863.  Hospitalized in Washington, D.C., where he died November 16, 1863 of "asthenia."  A detailed description of the wound and treatment as well as illustrations of the "conoidal ball" that killed him can be found in the Medical and Surgical History of the Civil War, 8:583.

JESSE E. MARSHALL, private Co. G, 13th N.C.:  Born Edgecombe County, farmer.  Enlisted there at age 17 on May 8, 1861.

Present or accounted for until wounded and captured at Williamsburg, Va., on May 5, 1862.  Hospitalized in Washington, D.C. where he died of the wound June 12, 1862.

--Old Secesh

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