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H.E. Perry
(1844 - 1862)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 1st Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Son of a physician, by 1850 he was with his family on their farm in Harrison County, TX. He enlisted on 22 September 1861 at Camp McLeod, VA and mustered as a Private in Company E, First Texas Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. He was 18 years old.
References & notes
Service information from Davis,1 Simpson,2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, also as Harwood Earl Perry, and the US Census of 1850. His picture from a photograph in the Harold Simpson collection at the Hill College History Complex, Hillsboro, TX; published in Widows by the Thousand: The Civil War Correspondence of Theophilus and Harriet Perry, 1862-1864 (2000), edited by M. Jane Johansson.
His brother Eugene was wounded at Sharpsburg and killed at the Wilderness, VA in 1864.
Birth
03/25/1844 in AL
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, Pg. 142 [AotW citation 1474]
2 Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 42 [AotW citation 20919]
3 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 33709]