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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Henry N. Jones

(? - 1863)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He mustered as Private in Company I, First Texas Infantry on 24 June 1861 in New Orleans. He commanded his Company as a Private at Malvern Hill, VA on 1 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 23 October 1862 but was killed in action at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863. He was originally buried on the Plank Farm (Hood's Division hospital) at Gettysburg, and reinterred in Hollywood Cemetery in 1872.

References & notes

Service information from Simpson.1 Burial details from the Buseys.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

07/02/1863; Gettysburg, PA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA

Notes

1 Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 65 [AotW citation 20997]

2 Busey, John W., and Travis W. Busey, Confederate Casualties at Gettysburg: A Comprehensive Record, Jefferson (NC): McFarland & Company, 2017, pg. 1419 [AotW citation 20998]

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