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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Ezekiel H. Smith

(c. 1841 - 1863)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Seguin, TX as a Private in Company D, 4th Texas Infantry on 20 March 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was promoted to 4th Corporal by November 1862, but was often absent from his Company, sick. He died of disease - "ulcers with sloughing - on 10 October 1863 at the South Carolina Hospital in Petersburg, VA.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1841; Seguin, TX

Death

10/10/1863; Petersburg, VA; burial in Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg, VA

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 154-155 [AotW citation 1749]

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 26641]

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