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Confederate (CSV)

Private

M. D. L. Ruskin

(? - 1863)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Navarro County as a Private in Company I, 4th Texas Infantry on 24 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was sent to the hospital on 23 December 1862 and died of small pox in Richmond, VA on 3 January 1863.

References & notes

His service from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3.

Death

01/03/1863; Richmond, VA

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 163 - 164 [AotW citation 1911]

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 26926]

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