Augustus Cenas

(c. 1841 - 1862)
Home State: Louisiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Louisiana Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He was a 20 year old unmarried clerk in New Orleans when he enlisted in Company E of the 6th Louisiana Infantry in June 1861.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.

The remainder of the War:
Originally buried "East of J. C. Grove's warehouse, on hill near a new house" on the battlefield at Sharpsburg. Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Burial information from Pruett1, who has his last name as Canas. Roster data from Booth2.

Place of Birth: New Orleans, LA
Death Date: 11/06/1862 Death Place: Sharpsburg, MD Burial Place: Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials , Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4603]

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