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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Henry Key

(1823 - 1881)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 39 year old cotton speculator in Hamburg in the Edgefield District, SC, he enlisted in Frederickburg, VA as a Private in Company A, 4th Texas Infantry on 15 March 1862, enrolled by Captain John C.G. Key.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was present, but sick, at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

Although often sick in hospitals or on furlough, and twice listed as transferred to a South Carolina unit, he was with his Company to at least September 1864 and was in the CSA General Hospital in Farmville, VA in April 1865.

After the War

By 1870 he was back in Hamburg and a trader there, but may have settled in Texas later.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860 and 1870.

He married Mary Garrett (1830-) in about 1850 and they had 2 children.

Birth

1823 in SC

Death

10/23/1881; Graniteville, SC

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 1633]

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 26753]

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