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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant Major

Hardy Allen

(? - 1862)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted on 19 July 1861 at Washington, TX and mustered as a Private in Company E, 5th Texas Infantry. He was appointed Sergeant Major of the regiment on 6 (or 31) October 1861.

On the Campaign

He was bearing the colors and among skirmishers in advance of the regiment when he was killed in action on the evening of 16 September 1862 at Sharpsburg. J.W. Stevens of Company K later remembered:

Allen was killed dead—shot through the breast. He was standing close to my side. I heard the death missile as it hit him, making a sound as though he had slapped his hands together.

References & notes

His service from Polley 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Sharpsburg details from Captain Roberdeau of Company B, with the quote from Stevens' Reminiscences.3

Death

09/16/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Polley, Joseph Benjamin, Hood's Texas Brigade, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910, pp. 338-339 [AotW citation 2525]

2 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 32621]

3 Stevens, John W., Reminiscences of the Civil War , Hillsboro (Tx): Hillsboro Mirror Print, 1902, p. 73 [AotW citation 32622]

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