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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Redmond Reid

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 49th Virginia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farm worker on his recently widowed mother's place near Occoquan in Prince William County, VA. He enlisted as a Private in Company F (later A) of the 49th Virginia Infantry in Prince William County on 1 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from the Virginia Military Dead,1 which has also him as Redman Reed. His last name from Fincham2 with service details from his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3, also as Redman Reid. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 and 1860.

Birth

c. 1840; Prince WIlliam County, VA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Library of Virginia, Virginia Military Dead Database, Published 2002, first accessed 30 November 2012, <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/vmd/>, Source page: /vmd_Search.asp [AotW citation 18895]

2 Fincham, Jr., Ray, Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry Regimental Histories - Virginia, Published 2005, <http://www.ranger95.com/civil_war/virginia/index.html>, Source page: /infantry/49va_inf/49th_inf_regt_roster_a.html [AotW citation 18896]

3 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 27822]

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