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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Riley N. Hammons

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as a Private in Company A, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861 in Gaudalupe County.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was listed as unfit for duty due to wounds until rejoining his Company in March or April 1863. He went absent without leave at Lynchburg, VA in February 1864 and was in arrest on 30 March. He was present for duty to at least August 1864 with no later military record.

References & notes

Service information from Polley,1 who has him as R. Hammon, killed at Sharpsburg, and from his Compiled Service Records, via fold3.2

Notes

1 Polley, Joseph Benjamin, Hood's Texas Brigade, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910, pg. 316 [AotW citation 1632]

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 26577]

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