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Confederate (CSV)

Major

Lawrence D. Lallerstedt

(1819 - 1869)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 22nd Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a successful 41 year old lawyer in Augusta, GA. He enrolled at Camp McDonald, Big Shanty (now Kennesaw), GA on 31 August 1861 and was commissioned Captain of Company A, 22nd Georgia Infantry. He was elected Major of the regiment on 2 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He relieved the wounded Colonel Jones in command of the regiment at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, but was himself severely wounded there.

The rest of the War

He resigned his commission due to disability on 16 July 1863.

References & notes

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Amanda F Clarke (1824-) in November 1844 and they had 4 sons, none of whom lived past 1862.

Birth

1819; Augusta, GA

Death

03/22/1869; Augusta, GA; burial in Magnolia Cemetery, Augusta, GA

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19440]

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 29843]

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