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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Powhatan Morgan

(? - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as a Private in Company H, 13th Georgia Infantry on 5 August 1861. He was killed in action on 1 September 1862 at Chantilly/Ox Hill, VA.

On the Campaign

Henderson says, in error, that he was mortally wounded at Sharpsburg and died the next day in Middleburg, VA.

The rest of the War

His mother Elizabeth B. Morgan of Dawson, Terrell County, GA filed for his final pay of $119.36 in January 1863.

References & notes

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

Birth

Date not known; Crawford County, GA

Death

09/01/1862; Chantilly, VA

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 7303]

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 28339]

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