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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Sidney Franklin Perry

"Bose"

(1839 - 1911)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From Harrison County, he enlisted in Company E, First Texas Infantry on 22 September 1861 at Camp McLeod, VA.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in the thigh in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 12 April 1865.

References & notes

Service information from Davis1 and Simpson.2 Wound detail from a 22 September casualty list by Lt. Col. Work published in the Galveston News of 1 November 1862. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His brother Clinton was killed at Sharpsburg.

Birth

05/24/1839; Lowndes County, AL

Death

10/02/1911; Marshall, TX; burial in Greenwood Cemetery, Marshall, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, Pg. 142 [AotW citation 1475]

2 Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 42 [AotW citation 20920]

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