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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Henry Dias

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 20, he enlisted on 20 July 1861 at Fort Johnson, SC and mustered as a Private in Company G (later E), First South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

By then in Company A, he was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his upper left thigh which cut his femoral artery, and he died "in a few moments" on the field at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with Sharpsburg details from the Memoirs.2

Birth

c. 1841

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 31924]

2 Hagood, James Robert, and Colonel Johnson Hagood, Memoirs of the First South Carolina Regiment of Volunteer Infantry ..., Barnwell: not published, c. 1870, p. 223 [AotW citation 31925]

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