Record #:

22944

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

Henry Lawson Wyatt lived in Greenville in 1848 but moved to Tarboro, NC around 1860. During the Civil War Wyatt enlisted in the infantry on April 18, 1861 and killed on June 10, 1861 at the age of 17. Many people claim that he was the first Confederate fatality of the war and established a monument in Raleigh in 1911 in his honor.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Nov 13-26 1985, p8-9, por

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Wyatt, Henry Lawson, 1842-1861