Private in Bethel Regiment, died at Yorktown, VA CSA
Died at Yorktown, Virginia, on the 7th of August, Henry Harrison Avery, youngest son of James Avery, Esq., of Burke County, North Carolina, a private of the "Burke Rifles," Company G, First Regiment of North Carolina Volunteers (6 months).
When too unwell for exertion, he [asked] to be permitted to accompany his Regiment in the rapid march to Bethel, where he participated in the fatigues and perils of the conflict, and returned with his victorious companions. His constitution had received an exhausting shock; it could not rally. Lingering sickness and death ensued.
——Raleigh Register, August, 24, 1861
Died at Yorktown, Virginia, on the 7th of August, Henry Harrison Avery, youngest son of James Avery, Esq., of Burke County, North Carolina, a private of the "Burke Rifles," Company G, First Regiment of North Carolina Volunteers (6 months).
When too unwell for exertion, he [asked] to be permitted to accompany his Regiment in the rapid march to Bethel, where he participated in the fatigues and perils of the conflict, and returned with his victorious companions. His constitution had received an exhausting shock; it could not rally. Lingering sickness and death ensued.
——Raleigh Register, August, 24, 1861
Private in Bethel Regiment, died at Yorktown, VA CSA
Died at Yorktown, Virginia, on the 7th of August, Henry Harrison Avery, youngest son of James Avery, Esq., of Burke County, North Carolina, a private of the "Burke Rifles," Company G, First Regiment of North Carolina Volunteers (6 months).
When too unwell for exertion, he [asked] to be permitted to accompany his Regiment in the rapid march to Bethel, where he participated in the fatigues and perils of the conflict, and returned with his victorious companions. His constitution had received an exhausting shock; it could not rally. Lingering sickness and death ensued.
——Raleigh Register, August, 24, 1861
Died at Yorktown, Virginia, on the 7th of August, Henry Harrison Avery, youngest son of James Avery, Esq., of Burke County, North Carolina, a private of the "Burke Rifles," Company G, First Regiment of North Carolina Volunteers (6 months).
When too unwell for exertion, he [asked] to be permitted to accompany his Regiment in the rapid march to Bethel, where he participated in the fatigues and perils of the conflict, and returned with his victorious companions. His constitution had received an exhausting shock; it could not rally. Lingering sickness and death ensued.
——Raleigh Register, August, 24, 1861
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