© Copyright 2000 James David Pearce

PIERCE, James:
Private, Co C
2nd NC Infantry Vols USA

To: Adjt Genl L. Thomas, USA.

Sir: It becomes my duty to inform you that the person above described died at this hospital as herein stated; and that the remains have been interred with the usual military honors.

Respectfully

G. L. Anesworth, Surgeon US Army
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RECORD OF DEATH AND INTERMENT

Name of person interred: James Pierce

Number and locality of the grave: 88

Hospital number of the deceased: 2145

Regt, rank and company: 2nd NC Vols; private; Co C

Residence before enlistment: Hertford Co., NC

Conjugal condition: Single

Cause of death: Typhoid fever

Age of the deceased: 18

Nativity: Hertford Co. NC

Date of death and burial: April 12th and April 13th, 1864

I CERTIFY, on honor, that James Pierce, a private of Captain Edward C. Blount's Company C of the 2nd Regiment of North Carolina Volunteers, of the State of North Carolina, aged 18 years, five feet four inches high, fair complexion, blue eyes, light hair, and by occupation a farmer, having joined or was mustered in service as a recruit by Lieutenant Barstow at Plymouth, on the seventeenth day of December 1863, to serve in the regiment for the term of three years, and having served honestly and faithfully with his company in North Carolina to the date of his death, which occurred April 12, 1864, at Beaufort NC,

AT THAT DATE, he is entitled to pay and subsistence for traveling to place of enrollment, and whatever other allowances are authorized to volunteer soldiers so discharged.

He has received from the United States clothing amounting to thirty-five dollars, since the 17th day of December 1863.

There is to be stopped from him, on account of The United States, for clothing etc received on entering service, no/100 dollars; and for other stopping, he is indebted to Mr. Wood, Sutler, thirteen/100 dollars.

Given in duplicate, at Carolina City, NC, this 13th day of April 1864.

William Kraft

2nd Lieutenant, Commanding Company

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