Henry Stokes Figures

From Huntsville, AL, he was an unmarried 18 year old salesman in Montgomery when he enlisted as Private 0n 10 June 1861 in Company F, 4th Alabama Infantry at Winchester, VA. Present with his Company in action in most engagements from First Manassas to Malvern Hill, VA.

He was present in action on South Mountain and at Sharpsburg.

He transferred and was appointed First Lieutenant and Adjutant of the 48th Alabama Infantry on 2 May 1863. He was in action on the Gettysburg, Chickamauga, and Knoxville campaigns. He was killed in action in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864. He was buried on the battlefield.

March 4, 1867 - "The remains of Lt. Henry S. Figures, Adjutant of the 48th Alabama Regiment and son of Advocate editor William B. Figures, were disinterred last week and brought home by his parents for burial at the City Cemetery."

Basic information from State of Alabama1. His picture here from a photograph in the Alabama Archives. The quote above from R.G. Pruitt's Eden of the South: A Chronology of Huntsville, Alabama ... (2005).

A letter of his to his father dated 9 May 1861, talking about happenings in Montgomery, then the capital of the Confederacy, is in the collection of the University of Notre Dame. His father was William B. Figures, then editor of the Southern Advocate in Huntsville. 33 of his wartime letters (April 1861-February 1864) are in the Gilder Lehrman Collection (pay wall).

01/09/1844 in AL

05/06/1864; near Fredericksburg, VA; burial in Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, AL