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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Louis B. Cox

(c. 1839 - 1897)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 23 year old farmer on his father's place in Travis County, he enlisted in Austin as a Private in Company B, 4th Texas Infantry on 17 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September but not at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. His first name from Polley;3 it may also have been Lewis. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1839 in KY

Death

02/13/1897; burial in Texas State Cemetery, Austin, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 150 - 152 [AotW citation 1663]

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 26768]

3 Polley, Joseph Benjamin, Hood's Texas Brigade, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910, pg. 317 [AotW citation 26769]

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