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Confederate (CSV)

Private

M. L. Easter

(? - 1864)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Robertson County as a Private in Company C, 4th Texas Infantry on 15 July 1861 and was slightly wounded in the head at Gaines Mill, VA on 27 June 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

By then a Corporal, he was on furlough home in February and March 1863 and was killed in action in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864.

References & notes

Service information from Davis,1 as M.L. Easten, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, also as Mytas L. Easter.

Death

05/06/1864; the Wilderness, VA

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 152-153 [AotW citation 1710]

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 26803]

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