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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Seaborn H. Reed

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an 18 year old worker on his parent's farm at Starkville in Oktibbeha County, MS. He enlisted at West Point, MS as a Private in the Company which became Company L, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 12 May 1862. He and the Company joined the Battalion just before Manassas on 29 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was left behind sick at Frederick, MD and captured in September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 26 September and treated in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick to at least 22 October 1862. His service record says he was presumed to have died in October 1862, place not given.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 2 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry, as S.H. Reed and Seabon H Reed. Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1842 in MS

Death

10/1862

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 29023]

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