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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Abner Riggins

(? - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company G, 12th Alabama Infantry, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

His death on South Mountain is from a casualty list for Rodes' Brigade in the Montgomery Weekly Advertiser of 8 October 1862. A sketch of the regiment in the SHSP 1 says he was killed at Sharpsburg (offset, like the others on the list, by one battle).

Death

09/14/1862; Turner's Gap, MD