Edwin Moore, older brother of Portius Aurelius Moore, was a Professor of Languages in Pitt County, N.C. in 1860. He enlisted in Co. A of the 24th NC Infantry as a private in Person County, NC on August 1, 1862. He was promoted to sergeant on May 1, 1863. Moore was wounded on April 18, 1864 during the Battle of Plymouth (NC) and was transferred on December 13, 1864 to the Veteran Reserve Corps.
He returned to Person County, NC after the war, where he was a teacher in 1870. By 1873, Moore had moved to Atlanta, GA, where he taught school. Moore died on July 15, 1904 and is buried in the Stephen Moore Cemetery in Person County, NC.
Moore's account of the Battle of Plymouth entitled "Ransom's Brigade--Its Gallant Conduct in the Capture of Plymouth, North Carolina in April 1864" appeared in the Richmond Dispatch on February 25, 1901. It was reprinted after his death in the Southern Historical Society Papers, v. 36, 1908.
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