I have not been able to find this fellow in any rosters. Perhaps a typographical error so prevalent in newspaper pieces.
George Martin
The Richmond Daily Dispatch: October 20, 1862.
Local matters.
Fatal Accident
--Yesterday, about half-past 2 o'clock, a soldier named Charles Cluts, belonging to the 7th North Carolina, fell from one of the rear windows of the barrack on Franklin street, and striking (after a descent of 20 feet) on a door which was open below lodged on it, and was taken off quite dead having no doubt broken his back, besides sustaining other injuries.