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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Zenas M. Kent

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: Louisiana

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: Washington (LA) Artillery, 3rd Company

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted 8 July 1861, at Manassas, VA in the 3rd Company, Washington Artillery. He had lived in Tangipahoa Parish, occupation clerk, age 20 when enlisted, single. Present on Rolls to July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was listed as a deserter on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.

The rest of the War

He was on Rolls of Prisoners of War, Paroled at Meridian, MS on 10 May 1865.

References & notes

Basic information from Booth1. There was a Zenas M. Kent on the rolls of Company D, 18th Mississippi Infantry.

Birth

c. 1841 in MS

Notes

1   Booth, Andrew B., Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, 3 Volumes, New Orleans: State of Louisiana, 1920, Vol. 3, Book 1, pg. 547  [AotW citation 14918]