Watson Franklin "Frank" Quinn
Born in Wolfscrape TWP, Duplin County
4 April 1836, died 22 April 1918 in Kenansville, buried in the Best-Quinn cemetery on Beautancus Road in Wolfscrape.
The U.S. Civil War "Confederate"
2nd Great Grandpa Frank's life was surely complicated having been born a slave holder when his father, 3rd Great Grandpa Jesse died on Beautancus Road, Wolfscrape TWP, Duplin County, NC on Sunday, 22 January 1860.
Frank was the Administrator of his father's will and estate. He was well educated and could certainly read and write and speak Gaelic.
The day after Christmas, December 26th, 1861 he departed meeting with family in Carteret County. He also me with cousins and uncles from Carteret, Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, New Hanover, Onslow, Sampson and Wayne Counties. The men discussed the family response to a North Carolina resisted secession at first (rejecting it in February 1861). Only after Fort Sumter and Lincoln’s call for troops did sentiment shift, and by May 20, 1861, the state joined the Confederacy—timed to echo its Revolutionary past.
On the 28th of December the family members able, regardless of age, joined the Confederate cause as solders and civilians alike.
Brief Service Record
3rd North Carolina Cavalry
Company B
December 28 1861 thru 21 July 1862
Gatlin’s Dragoons
Capt. E. W. Ward’s Company of Cavalry
1st North Carolina Cavalry
Company I
July 21, 1862 - February 22, 1863
After Action at Rappahannock Bridge and Grover Church, Virginia he would be Discharged - Disabled and ordered to Richmond Hospitals.
RECEIVING AND WAYSIDE HOSPITAL
Received February 25, 1863
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
Transferred February 25, 1863 to Chimborazo No. 3
Company I, 1 NC
CHIMBORAZO HOSPITAL No. 3
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
Received April 25, 1863
Last Paid March 31, 1863 $20.80
Discharged April 22, 1863
Diagnosis Debilitas
36th Artillery, NC Troops, NC 2nd Artillery
1st Company I or Herring Artillery
Enlisted July 11, 1863 in Kinston, NC until November 4, 1863
when Company I would be transferred to form 3rd Company G, 40th Regiment, 3rd Artillery en masse.
40th Artillery, NC Troops, NC 3rd Artillery
3rd Company G
November 4, 1863 - January 15, 1865
POINT LOOKOUT POW CAMP, CAMP HOFFMAN MARYLAND
Prisoner Patient Hammond General Hospital
Prisoner Company E
Captured, wounded at the surrender of Battery Buchanan January 15, 1865 by Col. Lamb. Frank was sent to Point Lookout POW Camp. Hammond General Hospital with a bullet wound that entered left lower thigh and exited from upper thigh. i.e. shot from ground level. Survived the war with wounds.
Repatriated June 17, 1865
Si «ab homine scriptum est, hominis causa est, non
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