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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Henry Dreyer

(? - 1862)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as a Private in Company F, 4th Texas Infantry on 2 April 1862 in San Antonio.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, left on the field, and captured.

The rest of the War

He was treated in a US field hospital on the J.C. Grove farm near Sharpsburg, but died there of wounds on 24 September 1862.

References & notes

Basic information from Davis1, with details from Burials2. His service dates from his Compiled Service Records,3 via fold3.

Death

09/24/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 157-158 [AotW citation 1792]

2 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 2907]

3 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 26660]

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