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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Henry E. Mosely

(c.1840 - ?)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 21, he enlisted as Private, Company K, First Texas Infantry when they organized in San Augustine County, TX in mid-1861 and mustered into Confederate service with them near Richmond, VA on 11 October 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was on wounded furlough, duration not given. He was was "transferred by promotion" on 11 December 1863, to a unit not named (possibly the 20th Texas in the Trans-Mississippi Department).

References & notes

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

Birth

c.1840

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pg. 143 [AotW citation 1553]

2 Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 76 [AotW citation 21025]

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