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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Moses G. Adams

(1842 - 1917)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 18 year old farmer living with his parents and 6 siblings in Rockford, Coosa County, AL. He enlisted there on 2 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was appointed 4th Sergeant on 14 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in Maryland and in action with them on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and at Sharpsburg on 17 September.

The rest of the War

He served with his company to the end of the war and was "in every battle."

After the War

He moved to Texas in 1871 and was in Cherokee County, TX after 1895.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His brothers Isaac and William were also in Company H and at Sharpsburg.

Birth

08/31/1842; Calhoun County, AL

Death

04/19/1917; burial in Jacksonville City Cemetery, Jacksonville, TX

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 32297]

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> [AotW citation 32298]

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