![]() Carlos Elphonse Lowrance Confederate States of America Army |
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Courtesy
of Owen Waggoner: January 2007
Private Carlos Elphonse Lowrance, Company E.
Was by occupation a farmer and part-time school teacher prior to enlisting
in Catawba County at age 31, July 4, 1862, for the war. Reported present
and accounted for through October 31, 1863. Wounded in the back and captured
at Rappahannock Station, Virginia, November 7, 1863. Hospitalized at Washington
D.C., where he died on November 16, 1863 of "asthenia". (A detailed description
of his wound and the treatment thereof, as well as an illustration of the
"conoidal ball" that killed him appears in Medical and Surgical History
of the Civil War, 8:583.)
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