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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Asa Cox Ferrell

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A physician's son, in 1860 he was an unmarried 18 year old clerk living with his father, stepmother, and 5 siblings in Wesobulga, Randolph County, AL. Giving his occupation as merchant, he enlisted on 19 July 1861 in Montgomery, AL and mustered as 2nd Sergeant of Company D, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was promoted to First Sergeant on 1 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September but was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His father Dr. Franklin Madison Ferrell (1812-1878) filed for his final pay of $188.89 in January 1864 and probably received it in November or December 1864; Dr. Ferrell was then living in Lafayette Springs, MS.

References & notes

His service from the Alabama database1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1842 in AL

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 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: /civilwar/soldier.cfm?id=61537 [AotW citation 25465]

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 32493]

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