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Confederate (CSV)

Private

M. L. Watson

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Knoxville, MS as a Private in Company I, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 19 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was left behind, sick, at Frederick, MD and captured there on 12 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was a prisoner in Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aiken's Landing, VA. He was declared exchanged and returned to his Company on 10 November 1862. He was on furlough in February 1864 but never returned.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry.

He may be Marcus Lafayette Watson (1844-1922) born Lowndes County, MS, died McLennan County, TX.

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 29042]

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