Fleming enlisted as 3rd lieutenant in Co. C of the 13th NC Infantry on April 24, 1861. He was promoted to adjutant on June 3, 1861 and to adjutant and 1st lieutenant on December 31, 1861. Fleming resigned on December 20, 1862 due to ill health, as he had been sick from typhoid fever since the summer of 1862.
He was a merchant in Caswell County, NC after the war. Fleming died of pneumonia on February 18, 1902 at the age of 68 while attending a special dairying course at N.C. State in Raleigh, NC. he is buried in Cedars Cemetery in Milton, NC.
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