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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

Allen G. Killingsworth

(? - 1863)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From McLennan County, he enlisted in Waco as First Sergeant of Company E, 4th Texas Infantry on 13 July 1861 and was elected 2nd Lieutenant on 15 July 1862 (to date from 4 July).

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 22 October 1862 and to Captain to date from 20 September 1863, but he was killed the next day at Chickamauga, GA.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, as A. G. Killingsworth. His first name from eyewitness to his death Pvt. John C. West in A Texan in Search of a Fight (1901).

Death

09/21/1863; Chickamauga, GA

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 155-157 [AotW citation 1764]

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 26861]

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