Lewis Hicks, Company H, 53rd Regiment N.C. Troops

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Brev. Brig. Gen'l
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Lewis Hicks (born ca. 1824) lived with his wife and three small children in Stokes County. His occupation was “day laborer.” He was conscripted in early 1863 and on March 2 or 7 enlisted at Danbury for three years in a local company known as the “Mountain Grays,” Company H, 53rd Regiment N.C. Troops.

Hicks was reported in the July-August 1863 muster roll of his company as “absent in arrest.” No cause for his arrest was specified. In fact, he was dead. He died of disease at Winchester, Virginia, on July 20 or 25, 1863, presumably in a Confederate hospital there, and is buried in the Stonewall Confederate Cemetery at Winchester in the North Carolina plot, number 361. The small stone marking his grave erroneously states that his regiment was the 52nd North Carolina.

Image: Sixth-plate ambrotype, Liljenquist Collection, Library of Congress.

Source Note:
1860 U. S. Census, Stokes County, North Carolina, population schedule, page 21, dwelling 139, family 3139, Lewis Hicks household; Manarin et. al., North Carolina Troops 13:143; service record files of Lewis Hicks, 53rd Regiment N.C. Troops, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers from the State of North Carolina (M270), RG109, NA; http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cg...2938&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=19321549&df=all&\l "
 
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Lewis Hicks (born ca. 1824) lived with his wife and three small children in Stokes County. His occupation was “day laborer.” He was conscripted in early 1863 and on March 2 or 7 enlisted at Danbury for three years in a local company known as the “Mountain Grays,” Company H, 53rd Regiment N.C. Troops.

Hicks was reported in the July-August 1863 muster roll of his company as “absent in arrest.” No cause for his arrest was specified. In fact, he was dead. He died of disease at Winchester, Virginia, on July 20 or 25, 1863, presumably in a Confederate hospital there, and is buried in the Stonewall Confederate Cemetery at Winchester in the North Carolina plot, number 361. The small stone marking his grave erroneously states that his regiment was the 52nd North Carolina.

Image: Sixth-plate ambrotype, Liljenquist Collection, Library of Congress.

Source Note:
1860 U. S. Census, Stokes County, North Carolina, population schedule, page 21, dwelling 139, family 3139, Lewis Hicks household; Manarin et. al., North Carolina Troops 13:143; service record files of Lewis Hicks, 53rd Regiment N.C. Troops, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers from the State of North Carolina (M270), RG109, NA; http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cg...2938&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=19321549&df=all&\l "

I had relatives in Company K
 
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