Henry T. Eason

From Sumterville, AL, he enrolled about 1 April 1861 in the Lauderdale Zouaves - Company G, 13th Mississippi Infantry and was appointed First Lieutenant. The Company was renamed "F" in 1862.

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.

He was originally buried "In Mrs. Lucker's [Locker] second field south of barn on west side of a Large rockbrake" on the battlefield at Sharpsburg and probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

Basic service from his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database. His commission and death from Dunbar Rowland's The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi (1908). Burial information from Pruett,1 who has him as H.T. Eason.

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD