Hugh F. Cain

In 1860 he was a 21 year old student and lived on his parents' farm at Lake Como in Jasper County, MS. He enlisted on 27 April 1861 at Paulding, Jasper County, MS and mustered as a Private in Company F, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 31 May in Corinth.

He was wounded in the hand in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was appointed 2nd Corporal on 1 November 1862. He was wounded again, at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864 and on wounded furlough from 25 May to about September 1864. He was with his Company to at least February 1865 with no later military record.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound detail from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850-1860; his birth name possibly Eli Hugh F Cain, as seen in the 1850 US Census.

His brother Thomas A Cain was also in Company F, but was killed at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864.

1840; Cherokee County, AL