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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

Napoleon Daniel Goree

(1840 - 1916)

Home State: Alabama

Education: University of Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 26th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enrolled on 5 August 1861 and was commissioned First Lieutenant of Company G, 26th Alabama Infantry on 29 December 1861. He was wounded at Seven Pines, VA on 31 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He commanded the Company in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Captain but resigned due to illness on 15 October 1862.

After the War

He lived in Tuscaloosa County.

References & notes

His service from Fincham's roster,1 sourced from Tod L. Molsworth's O'Neal's 26th Alabama: the Little Regiment that Did (2000). His role on South Mountain from a casualty list for Rodes' Brigade in the Montgomery Weekly Advertiser of 8 October 1862.

Birth

1840; Tuscaloosa County, AL

Death

1916

Notes

1 Fincham, Jr., Ray, Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry Regimental Histories - Alabama, Published 2005, first accessed 23 August 2020, <https://ranger95.com/civil_war/alabama/index.html>, Source page: /infantry/26ala_inf/26th_ala_inf_roster_g.htm [AotW citation 25525]

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