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Confederate (CSV)

Private

H. M. Donnelly

(? - 1862)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Waco, TX as a Private in Company E, 4th Texas Infantry on 13 July 1861. He was absent, sick, from 10 August to 5 September 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was sent to the CSA General Hospital in Staunton, VA and died there of his wounds on 22 November 1862.

References & notes

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

Death

11/22/1862; Staunton, VA; burial in Thornrose Cemetery, Staunton, VA

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 155-157 [AotW citation 1759]

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 26643]

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