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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Archer Thomas Cohea

(1822 - 1864)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 37 year old farmer is Hallettsville in Lavaca County, he enlisted there as a Private in Company F, 4th Texas Infantry on 13 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September but was listed as a deserter - absent without proper leave - at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was on detached duty with Hood's Division Pioneer Corps From November 1862 to about May 1863, then transferred to "Capt Baldwin's Company of the Engineer Corps" and away from his Company until March or April 1864. He was mortally wounded in the Wilderness, VA on 5 May 1864 and died of wounds on 7 May.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and from his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, both as Archer T. Cohea. Personal details from family genealogists - some of whom have his name as Archibald T. Cochea - and the US Census for 1860 (as Thomas Cohee). His modern memorial [via Findagrave] has him as Archibald Thomas Cohea.

Birth

1822; Robertson County, TN

Death

05/07/1864; in VA; burial in Union Hill Cemetery, Leesville, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 157-158 [AotW citation 1786]

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 26600]

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