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M. Dale
"Matt"
(1830 - 1862)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 1st Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He moved from Tennessee to Palestine, Texas in 1852 where he became a newspaper editor and member of the Texas House from 1859-1861, representing Anderson County. He was commissioned the original 2nd Lieutenant, Company G, 1st Texas Infantry in September 1861. He was appointed Major of the regiment on 19 May 1862.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg:
Major Dale, acting as lieutenant-colonel, had moved from the right, and was conferring with me as to the propriety of advancing or at once withdrawing, when he was killed.
References & notes
Service information from Davis1 and Simpson.2 The quote above from Lieutenant Colonel Work from his after-action Report. Personal details from The Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature, 1860, source also of his picture from his photograph as Texas State Representative (1860), online from the Legislative Reference Library of Texas.
Birth
11/22/1830; Smith County, TN
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
