[no picture yet]

Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Earnest Frederick Belvin

(1830 - 1862)

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 32nd Virginia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A hatter in Yorktown, going by Frederick, he enlisted as a Private in Company F, 32nd Virginia Infantry on 20 May 1861 in Williamsburg. He was promoted to 3rd Corporal on 1 September 1862.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from the Virginia Military Dead,1 Jensen,2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 via fold3; all as Frederick Belvin. Personal details from family genealogists.

He married Evelina K Rich (1830-1888) in February 1855 and they had two children.

Birth

1830; Yorktown, 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 18932]

2 Jensen, Les, 32nd Virginia Infantry, Lynchburg (Va): H.E. Howard, Inc., 1990 [AotW citation 27721]

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 27722]

« Search for another Person