Born: 1819 Father: George Sherrill Mother: Rutha Wilson Wife: Talitha Katherine Sherrill Died: 2 Mar 1864, Fort Delaware Prison, Delaware City, Delaware Buried: Finns Point National Cemetery, Salem, New Jersey Military History: Aseph was a private in Company C of the Infantry Regiment of the Thomas Legion. (See page 167, "Storm in the Mountains: Thomas' Confederate Legion of Cherokee Indians and Mountaineers) No date of enlistment is known. He was captured on 2 Feb 1864 in Jackson County, probably in the skirmish at the mouth of Deep Creek, near Bryson City. This engagement is discussed on pages 34 and 35 of Duane Oliver's "Remembered Lives." Aseph was transported to Camp Chase, Knoxville, Tennessee, by February 20, then to Louisville, Kentucky, by March 1, and finally to Fort Delaware, a Civil War prison located on Pea Patch Island in the middle of the Delaware River, about 25 miles south of Philadelphia, arriving there on March 4, 1864. Aseph died at Fort Delaware on March 2, 1865, less than two months before the war ended. The cause of death was listed as dysentery. He is buried in an unmarked grave at the Finns Point National Cemetery, on the New Jersey side of the river, near the town of Salem. He rests there, along with about 2,700 other Confederate soldiers who died at Fort Delaware. Aseph's name and unit are inscribed on a monument along with the names of the other Confederate soldiers buried at Finns Point. Aseph was old for a soldier, 42 at the start of the war, and 46 at the time of his death. He was the father of nine children born between 1843 and 1861.

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