The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.

Saturday, August 2, 2014

N.C. Confederates Buried at Arlington National Cemetery-- Part 7

THOMAS R. CARLTON, private  CO. B, 67TH NC:  Born Wataiga County, farmer.  Enlisted at age 20, September 14, 1861.  Mustered in as 1st sergeant. Reduced in rank March-April 1862.  Captured at or near Frayser's Farm, Virginia, on or about  June 30, 1862.

Confined at Fort Columbus, New York Harbor.  Transferred to Washington, D.C. where he died July 14, 1862, of "typhoid fever."

DANIEL G. COLEMAN, private CO. A, 20TH NC:  Born Iredell County, NC, and was employed as a carpenter.  Enlisted there at age of 22, April 19, 1861.

Wounded in right leg and captured at Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 1-4, 1863.  Right leg amputated.  Died in a Washington, D.C. hospital May 26, 1863 of his wound.

--Old Secesh


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