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Confederate (CSV)

Private

August Abraham

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Phillips' (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

An immigrant from Hessen-Darnstadt, he was a 19 year old peddler in Dalton, GA in 1860. He enlisted as Private, Company B, Phillips' Legion Infantry Battalion on 8 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded and captured in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was exchanged on 17 October 1862 and returned to duty. He was captured at Knoxville, TN on 3 December 1863 and held at Rock Island, IL. He was released on 21 May 1865.

References & notes

His service from Graham.1 His pre-war occupation from Anton Hieke's Jewish Identity in the Reconstruction South (2013).

Birth

c. 1841 in GERMANY

Notes

1 Graham, Kurt D., Phillips Georgia Legion - Infantry Battalion, first accessed 20 September 2012, <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/RandysTexas/page4.html>, Source page: /InfCoB.html [AotW citation 21849]

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