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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Thomas Ellis Hill Cory

(1841 - 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 19 year old living with his grandmother Martha McGraw, mother Esther, and 8 siblings on their large farm in Wilkinson County, MS. He enlisted on 21 April 1861 in Woodville, MS and mustered as a Private in Company K of the 16th Mississippi Infantry on 27 May 1861 in Corinth.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3, as Thomas Corey. His Sharpsburg death is on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862, as Thos Cary. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

10/1841; Wilkinson County, 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 29702]

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