Wilson, a farmer in Mecklenburg County in 1860, enlisted as a private in the Boydton Cavalry, Co. A of the 3rd VA Cavalry on August 20, 1861. He served as company clerk until March 1862, and in June 1862, he was detailed to the Commissary Department. In September 1862, he was commissioned by the Confederate Congress as Assistant Commissary with the rank of captain. In August 1863, he was appointed Assistant Quartermaster and assigned to Smyth County, VA.
After the war, he moved to Baltimore, MD, where he is listed as a "Commission Merchant" in the 1870 and 1889 censuses. His fate after 1880 is unknown at present.
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