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(1840 - 1885)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 19 year old on his parent's farm at Dawson in Terrell County, GA. He enlisted as a Private in Company H, 13th Georgia Infantry on 5 August 1861 in Richmond, VA.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the shoulder in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was in a hospital in Winchester, VA by 2 October 1862.
After the War
By 1880 he was in Sumter County, GA.
References & notes
His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, also as H.W. Dasdin. Sharpsburg wound and Winchester hospital details in a letter from Winchester of 2 October published in the Augusta Weekly Constitutionalist of 22 October 1862; thanks to Laura Elliott. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 and 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Susan Ann Kinard (1858-1940) and they had 5 children between 1875 and 1886.
Birth
07/22/1840; Americus, GA
Death
05/01/1885; Americus, GA; burial in Friendship Baptist Cemetery, Friendship, GA
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 28392]
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 28393]