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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Virgil S. King

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 47th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his parents and 2 younger siblings on the family farm at Kialijah (?) in Tallapoosa County, AL. He enlisted at Loachapoka in Lee County, AL as a Private in Company A, 47th Alabama Infantry on 20 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, initially thought to have been wounded and taken prisoner there, later listed as missing.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave. Thanks to Rene' King Thompson for the nudge to look into Virgil.

He was brother-in-law of Charles G. Hendix, also in Company A of the 4th Alabama and killed at Sharpsburg. His brother Adam was a Corporal in Company A and may have been at Sharpsburg.

Birth

c. 1844; Tallapoosa County, AL

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 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 31332]

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