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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Francis M. Nations

"Frank"

(1842 - 1862)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An 18 year old stock keeper in Gonzales County, he enlisted there as a Private in Company A, 4th Texas Infantry on 18 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was listed initially as wounded and missing at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, but as "supposed to have been killed" in February 1863 with no further record.

References & notes

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

His brother Robert was also in Company A and at Sharpsburg.

Birth

03/22/1842 in MS

Death

09/19/1862; 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 1641]

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 26588]

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