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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Henry H. Tweedy

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old day laborer at Jamesville in Martin County, NC. He enlisted on 24 June 1861 at Williamston, NC and mustered as a Private in Company H, First North Carolina Infantry. He was wounded in action at Malvern Hill, VA on 1 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862; "he was a brave soldier."

The rest of the War

His mother Adeline filed for his final pay of $122.38 in August 1863.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1840

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966- [AotW citation 19073]

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 31571]

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