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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Samuel S. Ames

(c. 1843 - ?)

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 30th Virginia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A blacksmith's son, in 1860 he was a 17 year old clerk living with his parents and 2 siblings in Frederickburg, VA. He enlisted there on 22 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 30th Virginia Infantry. He was promoted to Corporal on 10 April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the knee in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was disabled by his Sharpsburg wound and did not return to his unit. He was discharged on 1 July 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3 and Krick.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Cora Alice Dunn (1849-1921) in November 1864.

Birth

c. 1843 in VA

Notes

1 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 33946]

2 Krick, Robert K., 30th Virginia Infantry, Lynchburg (Va): H.E. Howard, Inc., 1983 [AotW citation 33947]

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