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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Charles H. Rushton

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From Austin, he enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as a Private in Company B, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861, and was slightly wounded in the leg at Gaines Mill, VA on 27 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was captured at Chickamauga, GA on 18 (or 19 or 20) September 1863, sent to the US military prison in Louisville, KY on 1 October, and on to Camp Douglas, Chicago, IL the next day. He was released on 17 May 1865.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, also as Charles H Ruston.

Death

Date not known; Brazoria County, 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 1694]

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 26794]

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