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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Lafayette M. Neely

(c. 1837 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 10th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 24 year old farmer at Ashville, he enlisted there as Private, Company A, 10th Alabama Infantry on 1 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at the siege of Harpers Ferry 13 - 15 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was exchanged about December 1862 and returned to duty, but was killed at Salem Church, VA on 3 May 1863.

References & notes

His service from the State of Alabama.1 His brother Alamoth was also in Company A.

Birth

c. 1837 in AL

Death

05/03/1863; Salem Church, VA

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=146627 [AotW citation 25772]

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