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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Richard C. Yelverton

(1841 - 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was 19 years old and lived with his parents and 7 siblings on a farm at Old Hickory in Simpson County, MS. He mustered as a Private in Company B, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 29 May 1861 in Corinth, MS. He was absent without leave from August 1861 to February 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Confederate Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

His brother Elam was wounded at Sharpsburg.

Birth

01/09/1841; Corinth, MS

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 29598]

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