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 Abt 1824 - 1865 (~ 41 years)
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William Silas Deal |
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Abt. 1824 |
Lincoln County, North Carolina, U.S.A.  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
30 May 1865 |
Point Lookout Prison, St. Mary's County, Maryland, U.S.A. |
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Lookout_State_Park
"In 1862 during the American Civil War, much of the land around Point Lookout was transformed into a bustling port, temporary city of civilians and military personnel and numerous buildings, a large army hospital, an army garrison at Fort Lincoln, and a Union prisoner of war camp to hold Confederate captives. Of the 50,000 soldiers held in the army prison camp, who were housed in tents at the Point between 1863 and 1865, according to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, nearly 4,000 died, although this death rate of 8 percent was less than half the death rate among soldiers who were in the field with their own armies.
The camp, originally built to hold 10,000 men, swelled to between 12,000 and 20,000 prisoners after the exchange of prisoners between armies was placed on hold. The result was crowded conditions with up to sixteen men to a tent in poor sanitary conditions. By far, it was the largest Union-run prison camp in the North and also, one of the worst during the war."
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| Buried |
St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery, Conover, Catawba County, North Carolina, U.S.A. |
- U.S. Veteran's Gravesites, 1775-2006: "William Silas Deal, b. Abt. 1824, Private, Confederate States Army, d. 1865, burial: St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery, Conover, Catawba County, NC."
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| Notes |
- U.S. Census Catawba, NC 1850: "William Deal, age 27 b. Abt. 1823 Catawba, NC, wife Amanda T., age 22 b. Abt. 1828 Catawba, NC, three children b. North Carolina: Martain T. 4, Catherine 2, James zero. Nancy E. Deal, age 54 b. Abt. 1796 Catawba, NC; Sylliames Noggle, age 13 b. Abt 1837 Catawba, NC."
www.ncgenweb.us/?atawba/family/WilliamSilasDEAL.pdf
"William Silas DEAL, was a well known and respected citizen of Newton Township, in the area known as "Rock Barn." The family attended St. John's Lutheran Church where William was a synod representative, a decade before War came to the Catawba Valley. He was likely devastated when his eldest son, Martin, died at the age of thirteen. When the war came, William Silas was a forty-year old farmer and was relatively well-to-do. He married Lilly Hoke, middle daughter of Fredrick A. Hoke. He was the son of Squire Johann Friedrich Hoke, the Catawba County Pioneer. He was a close personal friend of Pastor Philip Henkle, who delegated him as synod representative.
William S. Deal was enlisted with Company B, Capt. Mallat's Battalion (Camp Guard) and was sent to field duty with Company F the 38th Regiment, June 7, 1864. He was captured at Hatcher's Run, Virginia, April 2, 1865 and was confined at Point Lookout, Maryland, April 6, 1865 where he died on May 30, 1865, of "remit[tent] fever." This was after the April 9th surrender at Appomatox.
The account of the second battle of Hatcher's Run went as follows:
'On March 29 Grant launched a new offensive that culminated in the rout of a Confederate force at Five Forks on April 1 and opened the way for an advance on the Petersburg defenses in flank and rear. On April 2 the Federals launched a general assault against the entire Confederate line south of Petersburg. Scales's brigade was forced back to the second line of entrenchments, and to the left of the brigade the Federals broke through and threatened to carry the main works. That night Lee issued orders to evacuate the Richmond-Petersburg defenses, and his army pulled out of the trenches and marched to Amelia Court House. General Scales was at home on sick furlough, and his brigade was under the command of Colonel Joseph H. Hyman of the 13th Regiment N.C. Troops (3rd Regiment N.C. Volunteers).
Lee's army regrouped at Amelia Court House on April 4-5 and continued its retreat on April 6. At Sayler's Creek, on April 6, the Confederates failed to hold the advancing Federals and sustained heavy casualties. On April 7 the Confederate army moved through Farmville, and Scales's brigade, still commanded by Colonel Hyman, drove off a body of Federal cavalry that was preparing to attack the retreating column. On the morning of April 9, as Wilcox's division was moving to support an attack by General John B. Gordon on the Federals just west of Appomattox Court House, word came to cease fire. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House that day. When the army was paroled on April 12, 1865, 131 members of the 38th Regiment N.C. Troops were present to receive their paroles.' [NC Troops-A Roster 1861-1865, Vol. X:5-8.
William Silas left a widow, Lilly, with five children. Seven children were born but three or more may have died in the epidemic of the Winter of 1859/60. She remarried Osborne H. Lee and moved to Hamilton Township sometime after 1869, when they were married."
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| Person ID |
I30232 |
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| Last Modified |
1 Nov 2013 |
| Father |
Solomon Deal, b. 3 Jul 1791, Lincoln County, North Carolina, U.S.A. , d. 6 May 1877, North Carolina, U.S.A. (Age 85 years) |
| Mother |
Sarah Susan Yount, b. Abt. 1791, Lincoln County, North Carolina, U.S.A. , d. 29 Jun 1864, North Carolina, U.S.A. (Age ~ 73 years) |
| Married |
29 Jun 1815 |
Lincoln County, North Carolina, U.S.A. |
- LDS FamilySearch North Carolina Marriages, 1762-1979: "Solomon Deal & Sally Yount, m. 29 Jun 1815 Lincoln County."
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F18039659 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Lillia Amanda Hoke, b. 26 Dec 1828, Lincoln County, North Carolina, U.S.A. , d. Abt. 1902, Catawba County, North Carolina, USA (Age 73 years) |
| Married |
14 Mar 1845 |
Catawba County, North Carolina, USA |
- North Carolina Marriage Collection, 1741-2004: "William S. Deal & Lilly Hoke, 14 Mar 1845, Catawba County."
North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868: William S. Deal & Lilly Hoke, 14 Mar 1845 Catawba County; bondsman: Henra [sic] L. Sigman, witness: J.A. Reinhardt."
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| Children |
| | 1. Martin T. Deal, b. Abt. 1846, Catawba County, North Carolina, USA , d. Abt. 1859, Catawba County, North Carolina, USA (Age ~ 13 years) |
| | 2. Catherine E. Deal, b. Abt. 1848, Catawba County, North Carolina, USA |
| + | 3. James Gray Deal, b. Abt. 1850, Catawba County, North Carolina, USA |
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| Last Modified |
15 Sep 2011 |
| Family ID |
F18039660 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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 | Born - Abt. 1824 - Lincoln County, North Carolina, U.S.A. |
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 | Married - 14 Mar 1845 - Catawba County, North Carolina, USA |
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 | Buried - - St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery, Conover, Catawba County, North Carolina, U.S.A. |
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