Columbus County, NC -- OBITUARY OF ATPHA BLACKMAN, -- September 23, 1863

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At the Hospital of the 51st Regiment, N.C.T., at Mount Pleasant, opposite
Charleston, S.C., on the 17th inst.,of secondary hemorage, Private ATPHA 
BLACKMAN, of Company H, 51st Regiment N.C.T., a native of Columbus county, 
N.C., aged 27 years. Said disease was cause by a severe fracture of the right 
arm, "which rendered amputation necessary," inflicted during the furious 
bombardment of Sullivan's Island, on the night of the 1st inst.

Source: The Daily Journal, Wilmington, NC, Wednesday, September 23, 1863, 
Volume 13, number 15.