Moore, a lawyer in Wilmington, NC in the 1860 census, enlisted on May 31, 1861 as a sergeant in Co. E of 1st NC Infantry. He was promoted to second lieutenant on December 6, 1861 and to first lieutenant on January 29, 1863. On June 29, 1863 he was promoted to captain and assumed command of the company on October1, 1863. He was wounded on June 26, 1862 at the Battle of Ellerson's Mill, VA, part of the Seven Days Battles near Richmond, VA. He is reported to have been wounded slightly several more times, at Malvern Hill, South Mountain, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. Moore was seriously wounded again at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 3, 1863, with injuries to the head, breast, and thigh, and hospitalized first at General Hospital No. 4 in Richmond, VA and then was transferred to Raleigh, NC. In November 1863, he was again admitted to General Hospital No. 4 suffering from a fever and "tubercles of right lung" and was furloughed for recuperation, spending the time in North Carolina. In late September 1864, Moore was admitted to the CSA General Hospital in Charlottesville, with a diagnosis of debilitas, and then sent to Lynchburg, VA.
After the war, he operated a school in Charlotte, NC. He transferred the school to R.H. Pharr in January, 1868. His history after this is unknown.
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