Dear Ms. Estabrook,
BTW, I'm from Muskogee, OK. I suspect you or recent family were from Oklahoma?
Here's what I'm finding:
Name: Jacob D Payne ,
Residence: Caldwell County, North Carolina
Enlistment Date: 31 May 1861
Service Record:
Enlisted as a Private on 31 May 1861 at the age of 20
Enlisted in Company B, 1st Infantry Regiment North Carolina on 01 July 1861.
Died Company B, 1st Infantry Regiment North Carolina on 21 December 1861 in Hospital At Fredericksburg, VA
Every young man, North & South who went off to war deserves the highest recognition. Your ancestor appears to have died very early in the conflict, probably as a result of disease. The battle of Fredericksburg, VA was fought Dec. 13, 1862, so your ancestor did not participate in this battle. In fact, he may not have fought in any battles. He is probably one of the countless thousands who died from camp diseases, which was the number one killer of Civil War era soldiers.
Here's a short history of this unit.
1st Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
1st Infantry Regiment State Troops was organized at the race track near Warrenton, North Carolina, during the spring of 1861. Its members were recruited in the counties of Chowan, Wilkes, New Hanover, Orange, Lincoln, Hertford, Northampton, Washington, Martin, Wake, and Halifax. In July it was mustered into Confederate service with more than 1,500 officers and men and ordered to Virginia. The regiment was brigaded under General Ripley, Colston, Steuart, and Cox. It participated in the campaigns of the army from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor, was with Early in the Shenandoah Valley, and shared in the Appomattox operations. This unit reported 142 casualties at Mechanicsville, 75 at Malvern Hill, 160 at South Mountain and Sharpsburg, and 15 at Fredericksburg. It lost 34 killed and 83 wounded at Chancellorsville and forty percent of the 377 at Gettysburg. It surrendered 10 officers and 61 men in April, 1865. The field officers were Colonels Hamilton A. Brown, John A. McDowell, and Montfort S. Stokes; Lieutenant Colonels Jarrett N. Harrell and Matthew W. Ransom; and Majors James S. Hines, L.C. Latham, and Tristim L. Skinner.
--------------
If you'd like to order this man's Compiled Military Service Record you can do so through the large ad at the top center of these pages or click on the link below. I'm sure his file would be small, but it might shed more light on what caused his death and, in which hospital he died.
Jim Martin