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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Phillip August Groos

(? - 1862)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Gonzales County as a Private in Company A, 4th Texas Infantry on 18 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was initially thought wounded and missing in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. By January 1863 he was "supposed killed."

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 as P.A. Groos, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, also as Phillip A. Gross. Personal details from family genealogists.

He married Justine Schneider (b. 1835) in May 1854 in Comal County, TX and they had a daughter Emma Kathryn (1857-1945).

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 148-150, 315-316 [AotW citation 1629]

2 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 26743]

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