Contributed by: Ada Dunn Noah J. Mercer, Private 2nd Company A. 36th Regiment - Artillery Enlisted in Brunswick County at age 27, May 14, 1862 for the war. Present or accounted for through August 1864. Captured at Fort Fisher January 15, 1865 and confined at Elmira, N.Y., where he died March 17, 1865 of typhoid fever and was buried in Woodlawn National Cemetery, Elmira. Source: North Carolina Troops: Volume 1, page 192 |