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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Andrew Jackson LaRue

(1843 - 1876)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 17 year old farmer on his father's place at Athens in Henderson County, he enlisted there as a Private in Company K, 4th Texas Infantry on 15 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September, but not at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was wounded at Chickamauga, GA on 20 September 1862 and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

In 1870 he was working his own farm near Athens, TX with a new baby he named Robert Lee LaRue (1870-1940). He died relatively you at age 33 just before Christmas 1876.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from the US Census of 1860 and 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Rebecca Adeline Neill (1846-1922) in November 1865 in Henderson County and they had 4 children.

Birth

12/07/1843; Bedford County, TN

Death

12/23/1876; burial in Liberty Cemetery, Martins Mill, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 164 - 165 [AotW citation 1925]

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 26938]

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