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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Leroy Edwards

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 19 year old farmer at Randolph, AL, he enlisted as Private, Company F, 44th Alabama Infantry on 14 March 1862 in Bibb County.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the State of Alabama.1 He's also on a casualty list in the Montgomery Weekly Advertiser of 8 October 1862 as missing at Sharpsburg. Birth details from family genealogists.

Birth

c. 1843; Randolph, AL

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /civilwar/soldier.cfm?id=56810 [AotW citation 25734]

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