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Re: Rodes at Chancellorsville
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Here's the one casualty listed for the 5th NC Cavalry at Chancellorsville.

This however, was misplaced as the soldier in question had previously been transferred to the 7th NC Infantry, see below:
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Walter G. MacRae

Residence New Hanover County NC;
Enlisted on 5/13/1862 at Cumberland County, NC as a Private.
On 5/13/1862 he mustered into "A" Co. NC 5th Cavalry
[Capt. James H. McNeill’s Company of Partisan Rangers]
He was discharged for promotion on 3/17/1863
On 3/17/1863 he was commissioned into "C" Co. NC 7th Infantry
(date and method of discharge not given)

He was listed as:
* Wounded 5/2/1863 Chancellorsville, VA (Wounded right thigh)
* Wounded 7/3/1863 Gettysburg, PA (Wounded left thigh)
* Absent 7/5/1863 (place not stated) (Estimated day, wounded)
* Returned 9/1/1863 (place not stated) (Estimated day)
* POW 5/6/1864 Wilderness, VA
* Confined 5/10/1864 Fort Delaware, DE (Estimated day)
* Transferred 8/20/1864 Hilton Head, SC
* Confined 10/21/1864 Fort Pulaski, GA
* Transferred 3/12/1865 Fort Delaware, DE
* Oath of Allegiance 5/26/1865 (place not stated)

Promotions:
* 1st Lieut 3/17/1863 (As of Co. C 7th NC Inf)
* Capt 9/12/1863

Other Information:
born 1/27/1841

After the War he lived in Wilmington, NC

Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:

- North Carolina Troops 1861-65, A Roster
- Confederate Military History
(c) Historical Data Systems, Inc. @ www.civilwardata.com

Captain Walter G. MacRae, a gallant North Carolina soldier,
now residing at Wilmington, was born at that city, January 27,
1841. He was educated in New England, entering a private
school in Boston in 1856, graduating at the English high
school at that city in 1860, receiving the Franklin medal, and
then studying law at the Harvard law school until the outbreak
of hostilities in 1861, when he returned home to fight for his
State.

Joining the Eighteenth North Carolina, he accompanied it to
South Carolina, and a few months later was transferred to the
heavy artillery and stationed at Fort Fisher. Subsequently he
became a member of McNeill's Partisan Rangers, and, after an
adventurous career of thirteen months with that command,
joined Company C of the Seventh North Carolina infantry, with
a commission as lieutenant from Governor Ellis.

Source: Confederate Military History Vol. V p. 629

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