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Francis Marion Sentelle
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Private
Prisoner of War
Company D
7th Battalion North Carolina Cavalry

Sergeant
Company D
6th North Carolina Cavalry
(65th North Carolina State Troops)

Confederate States
Civil War

Confederate Veteran (used by permission of The Flag Guys ®)

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 Confederate Private (not Francis Marion Sentelle)
Francis Marion Sentelle

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Military Record
Commanders
7th Batallion North Carolina Cavalry
6th North Carolina Cavalry (65th North Carolina State Troops)

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Military Record
source: Civil War Soldiers And Sailors System
www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html

Confederate soldiers

Francis M. Sentell

Regiment Name: 7th Batallion  North Carolina Cavalry
Side: Confederate
Company:  D
Soldier's Rank In: Private
Soldier's Rank Out: Private
Alternate Name: F.M. Sentell

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Regiment Name: 6th North Carolina Cavalry
(65th North Carolina State Troops)
Side: Confederate
Company:  D
Soldier's Rank In: Private
Soldier's Rank Out: Sergeant
Alternate Name: F.M. Sentell

from Sam Sentell's
Sentell Family History, Chapter 5
http://pages.suddenlink.net/sentelle/ch005.htm

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9 June 1863 - Captured at Monticello KY

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Confined at Johnson's Island OH (See Johnson's Island website)

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30 October 1863 - Transferred to Point Lookout MD (See Point Lookout website)

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14-15 February 1865 - Paroled at Coxes Landing VA

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Commanders
source:  6th North Carolina Cavalry (65th North Carolina State Troops)
members.aol.com/jweaver301/nc/6nccavhi.htm
Confederate officer

Colonel George Nathaniel Folk
Lieutenant Colonel - Alfred Hunter Baird
Major Thaddeus P. Siler
Major J. J. Spann

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7th Battalion North Carolina Cavalry
source: Civil War Soldiers And Sailors System
www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/regiments.htm
source:  6th North Carolina Cavalry (65th North Carolina State Troops)
members.aol.com/jweaver301/nc/6nccavhi.htm
Confederate soldier

Summer 1862

Battalion organized
1862-1863 Skirmished in Tennessee and Kentucky
1 Nov 1862 to
1 Mar 1863
96 men located at Zollicoffer TN
1 July to 31 Aug 1863 85 men stationed at Loudon TN
Aug 1863 Merged into 6th North Carolina Cavalry (65th North Carolina State Troops)

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6th North Carolina Cavalry (65th North Carolina State Troops)
source:  6th North Carolina Cavalry (65th North Carolina State Troops)
members.aol.com/jweaver301/nc/6nccavhi.htm
Confederate soldier

3 Aug 1863

Organized by consolidation of 5th and 7th Battalions North Carolina Cavalry
31 Aug 1863 85 men stationed at Loudon TN
1 Sep to 31 Dec 1863 75 men stationed at Rutherfordton NC
31 Dec 1863 to 30 Apr 1864 74 men stationed at Kinston NC
30 Apr to 31 Aug 1864 74 men stationed at Kinston NC
30 Sep to 31 Oct 1864 43 men posted near Kinston NC

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