![]() Thomas R. Carlton Confederate States of America Army |
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Courtesy
of Derick S. Hartshorn: April
2007
CARLTON, THOMAS R, Private, Company B, 37th
Regiment, N.C. Troops. Born in Watauga County* where he resided as a farmer
prior to enlisting in Watauga County at age 20, September 14, 1861. Mustered
in as 1st Sergeant. Reduced to ranks in March-April, 1862. Captured at
or near Frayser's Farm, Virginia, on or about June 30, 1862. Confined ai:
Fort Columbus, New York Harbor. Transferred to Washington, DC, where he
died on July 14, 1862, of "typhoid fever." [North Carolina Troops-A Roster
1861-1865, North Carolina Dept. of Archives and History, Vol. 9:488]
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