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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Stephen Henry Murphy

(1836 - 1873)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He was an unmarried clerk from Huntsville, AL when he enlisted as Private on 26 April 1861 in Company I, 4th Alabama Infantry. He was in action from First to Second Manassas, VA.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company on South Mountain and at Sharpsburg.

The rest of the War

He was in action from Fredericksburg, VA in December 1862 through to the siege of Petersburg, VA in 1864. He was appointed First Sergeant on 1 July 1864. He was wounded in action on 24 September 1864 (place not given) and surrendered with his Company at Appomattox Courthouse, VA on 9 April 1865.

References & notes

Basic information from State of Alabama1 with details from Coles.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

12/26/1836; Madison County, AL

Death

06/28/1873; Madison County, AL; burial in Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, AL

Notes

1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: various [AotW citation 15742]

2 Coles, Robert T., and Jeffrey D. Stocker, editor, From Huntsville to Appomattox: R. T. Coles's History of 4th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996, pg. 229, note 35 [AotW citation 15768]

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