Author's Note: Cicero Fidello Turner, brother of my great-great grandfather, Lysander Turner, was my great-great-great uncle.
A son of James Patrick Henry Turner and Margaret Elizabeth Hunt Turner and brother of Lysander Turner, Cicero Fidello Turner, known as “Roe” to family members, was born in 1845. Enlisting on September 20, 1863, at the age of 17, in Granville County, North Carolina, for the duration of the War, Cicero served as a private in Company D of the 66th North Carolina Infantry. Cicero was listed absent without leave on the company muster roll for September and October 1863. On September 30, 1864 he received a sick furlough at the General Hospital at Camp Winder, Richmond Virginia; his destination was listed as "Kittrells," North Carolina.
Captured by the Union near Kinston, North Carolina on March 10, 1865, following the Battle of South West Creek (March 8-10, 1865), Cicero arrived at New Berne, on March 16, 1865, and was transferred to Point Lookout, Maryland. He was released at Point Lookout on June 21, 1865 after taking the Oath of Allegiance.
