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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Napoleon Adolphus Strong

(1843 - ?)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 16 year old student in Guadalupe County, TX. He enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as a Private in Company A, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861 and was appointed 4th Corporal on 30 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded by a gunshot to his left leg at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the St. Francis de Sales Infirmary in Richmond from 18-22 October, then furloughed due to wounds. He returned to duty by March 1863 but was wounded again, probably in the Wilderness, VA, on 5 May 1863 and was in hospitals in Richmond and Williamsburg, VA to 12 July, when he got a 30-day furlough. He was captured at Chickamauga, GA in September 1863, sent to Louisville, KY on 13 October, and on to the Federal prison at Camp Morton, Indianapolis, IN on the 16th. He escaped from there on 9 January 1864 and returned to duty. He was wounded again, seriously, in the arm on 7 June 1864 and was in Howard Grove Hospital in Richmond, VA on June 20, with no later record.

References & notes

Service information from Davis1 and from his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

11/18/1843; Fayette County, AL

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 1645]

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 26594]