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(1817 - 1862)
Home State: Florida
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 5th Florida Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted as Sergeant in Company D, 5th Florida Infantry on 26 March 1862 in Madison, FL.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds on 16 October 1862 in the CS hospital in Winchester, VA.
After the War
His mother Mary McNeill Collins filed for his final pay in March 1863.
References & notes
Service from Soldiers of Florida.1 Further details from Biographical Rosters of Florida's Confederate and Union Soldiers 1861-1865 (via the Historical Data Systems database). Personal details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has him as Archibald Beaton Collins. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
03/18/1817; Washington County, GA
Death
10/16/1862; Winchester, VA; burial in Stonewall Confederate Cemetery, Winchester, VA
1 State of Florida, Board of State Institutions, Soldiers of Florida in the Seminole Indian, Civil and Spanish-American Wars, Live Oak (FL): Democrat Print, 1903, pg. 142 [AotW citation 20013]