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Confederate (CSV)

Private

A. C. Strother

(c. 1837 - 1862)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 25, he enlisted in Company H, First Texas Infantry on 20 March 1862 at Kickapoo, TX.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the head and arm in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was sent home on furlough but died of wounds on 1 December 1862 in Texas.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1837

Death

12/01/1862; in TX

Notes

1   Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, Pg. 142  [AotW citation 1525]

2   Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 63  [AotW citation 20986]