[no picture yet]

Confederate (CSV)

Private

Anderson R. Ledlow

(c. 1836 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 24 year old overseer on the large Bell farm near Belvue in Dallas County, AL; planter Elijah Bell was also a clergyman. He enlisted as a Private in Company G (later renamed F), 5th Alabama Infantry on 10 April 1861 in Cahaba, AL. He was sick at Union Mills, VA in September and August 1861 and again, in Richmond, VA in June 1862.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Basic information from Fry1. His service from the State of Alabama2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1836; Dallas County, AL

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Fry, Anna M. Gayle, Memories of Old Cahaba, Nashville (Tenn): Publishing House of the M. E. Church, South, 1905, pp. 109 - 120 [AotW citation 9417]

2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: various [AotW citation 15783]

3 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 27968]

« Search for another Person