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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Francis Marion Yancy

(c. 1830 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 30 year old farmer at Rockdale in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted in Arbacoochee, AL on 24 April 1862 as a Private in Company I, 44th Alabama Infantry.

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 26 (or 28) September 1862 in Winchester, VA. His widow Mary filed for his final pay in August 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Alabama database,1 which has him as Francis M. Yancey and says he was killed outright at Sharpsburg, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, which say he was left on the field and captured (no POW records found). He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862, as mortally wounded. Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1830 in GA

Death

09/26/1862; Winchester, VA; burial in Stonewall Confederate Cemetery, Winchester, VA

Notes

1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 31705]

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 31706]

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