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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

Henry Barksdale Fowler

(c. 1831 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 29 year old farmer at Yanceyville in Caswell County, NC. He enlisted on 10 August 1861 at Camp Ruffin, VA and mustered on 31 August as a Private in Company A, 13th North Carolina Infantry. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 26 April 1862 during the army reorganization.

On the Campaign

He "behaved with great coolness and courage" in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 but was killed at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. The quote above from Lieutenant Colonel Ruffin in his after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1831 in VA

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 19178]

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 33177]

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