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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Henry Lawrence Langston

(1844 - 1863)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 16 year old Ordinary's son near Laurens Court House, SC. He enlisted as a Private in Company D, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion on 26 January 1862 at Camp Brook, Adams Run, SC, then age 17. He was ill in a hospital at Culpeper, VA in August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing in action at Fox's Gap on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was still listed as missing on the Company muser roll for December 1862, the last record in his file. He was probably killed at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863.

References & notes

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

His cousin David Mason Henry Langston (1834-1863, not at Sharpsburg) was Captain of Company I, and acting Lieutenant Colonel, 3rd South Carolina Infantry when he was also killed at Gettysburg.

Birth

1844; Madden Station, Laurens District , SC

Death

07/02/1863; Gettysburg, PA

Notes

1 Davis, Sam B., A History of the 3rd South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Battalion (James Battalion): 1861-1865 , Wilmington (NC): Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2009, pp. 68-71, Roster [AotW citation 16002]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 27780]

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