Jeremiah Waifield Watson Pearson b 1831 NC

I need military service and death information on Jeremiah Pearson.He was born in NC 1831.One story has that he died of yellow fever during the time of the Civil War or that he was wounded at Prairie Grove in Arkansas, walked home and then died.Was he in the Civil War and if so on what side and how and where did he die and where is he buried?Marie Anderson