Private Daniel Albright
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Title
Private Daniel Albright
Subject
Company G, 19th Regiment N.C. Troops (2nd Regiment N.C. Cavalry)
Description
Daniel Albright belonged to a family of Alamance County gunsmiths and was employed for most of the war by the firm of Clapp, Gates & Company, located at Cedar Hill Foundry on the Alamance River in eastern Guilford County. Albright worked as a barrel maker, and the job provided him an exemption from military
service.
Clapp, Gates produced about 1000 rifles for the State of North Carolina before its contract was cancelled in late 1863. With that event, the employees of military age became subject to conscription in the Confederate army.
Albright served in Company G, 19th Regiment N.C. Troops (2nd Regiment N.C. Cavalry), as attested by the only military record for him that survives: a list of paroled prisoners of war belonging to the Army of Northern Virginia that received their paroles at Greensboro on May 16, 1865. (Albright was one of seven members of Company G whose only military record is a Greensboro parole from May 1865.)
An undated letter (probably late 1864) from Albright to his father, John Albright, provides further details of his military service:
Albright assured his father that he drew “very good rashings” that included “flour corn meal molasses Sugar and coffee and meat and peas and tobacco.” He also asked “what all the barles [barrel] hands is a doing” and “how many of the boys they have caut Since I left.”
Twelve members of Company G enlisted or were conscripted at Camp Vance, Burke County, on March 3, 1864. Albright mentions three of those men in his letter, and it is likely that March 3 was also his date of enlistment. Why he is not mentioned in surviving muster rolls of the company from middle to late 1864 is unknown.
Surviving with Albright’s photograph and letter is his sword, a US Model 1860 cavalry saber, made by Ames Manufacturing Company. Colonel (later brigadier general) William P. Roberts, who commanded the 19th North Carolina from February 1864 to February 1865 remembered that during the latter part of the war the regiment was “equipped almost entirely by captures from the enemy, including bridles and saddles, carbines, pistols, swords, canteens, blankets, and every article necessary to a thorough equipment of a trooper.” Albright’s uniform coat, however, is Confederate.
Daniel Albright (August 17, 1839-December 27, 1920) is buried at Brick Reform United Church of Christ Cemetery, Alamance County.
service.
Clapp, Gates produced about 1000 rifles for the State of North Carolina before its contract was cancelled in late 1863. With that event, the employees of military age became subject to conscription in the Confederate army.
Albright served in Company G, 19th Regiment N.C. Troops (2nd Regiment N.C. Cavalry), as attested by the only military record for him that survives: a list of paroled prisoners of war belonging to the Army of Northern Virginia that received their paroles at Greensboro on May 16, 1865. (Albright was one of seven members of Company G whose only military record is a Greensboro parole from May 1865.)
An undated letter (probably late 1864) from Albright to his father, John Albright, provides further details of his military service:
Albright assured his father that he drew “very good rashings” that included “flour corn meal molasses Sugar and coffee and meat and peas and tobacco.” He also asked “what all the barles [barrel] hands is a doing” and “how many of the boys they have caut Since I left.”
Twelve members of Company G enlisted or were conscripted at Camp Vance, Burke County, on March 3, 1864. Albright mentions three of those men in his letter, and it is likely that March 3 was also his date of enlistment. Why he is not mentioned in surviving muster rolls of the company from middle to late 1864 is unknown.
Surviving with Albright’s photograph and letter is his sword, a US Model 1860 cavalry saber, made by Ames Manufacturing Company. Colonel (later brigadier general) William P. Roberts, who commanded the 19th North Carolina from February 1864 to February 1865 remembered that during the latter part of the war the regiment was “equipped almost entirely by captures from the enemy, including bridles and saddles, carbines, pistols, swords, canteens, blankets, and every article necessary to a thorough equipment of a trooper.” Albright’s uniform coat, however, is Confederate.
Daniel Albright (August 17, 1839-December 27, 1920) is buried at Brick Reform United Church of Christ Cemetery, Alamance County.
Creator
Unknown Photographer
Source
Daniel Albright, undated letter (ca. late 1864), Michael Black Collection, copy in author’s possession; Michael Black, email to author, February 15, 2015; Clark, Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina, 2:106; Manarin et. al., North Carolina Troops 2:149-156; service record files of Daniel Albright, William Isley, George Shoffner, and Jacob Shoffner, 19th 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.cgi?page=gr...&
Contributor
Michael Black Collection
Format
1/6th plate Ambrotype
Files
Citation
Unknown Photographer, “Private Daniel Albright,” Tar Heel Faces, accessed May 17, 2024, https://tarheelfaces.omeka.net/items/show/125.
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