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Confederate (CSV)

Private

H. C. Briscoe

(c. 1843 - 1823)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Rocky Point, MS as a Private in Company B, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 1 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was accidentally wounded, slightly, in Maryland on 7 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was at least briefly "left at Frederick," MD but was was admitted to a Charlottesville, VA hospital on 18 September and furloughed home for 30 days on 10 October 1862, but was later listed as a deserter as of 15 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry, as H.C Briscoe and H.S. Briscoe. His gravesite is on Findagrave (as Henry Clay Briscoe); the 1931 application for his gravestone, with his death date, as H.C. Briscoe, is online from Ancestry.com.

The 1860 US Census for Brandon, Rankin County, MS has Henry Clay Briscoe as born about 1850, probably too young to have enlisted in 1861.

Birth

c. 1843 in MS

Death

10/04/1823; burial in Holly Grove Cemetery, Braxton, MS

Notes

1 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 28959]

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