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Confederate (CSV)

Private

W. H. Smith

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From Oglethorpe County, he enlisted as Private, Company K, 6th Georgia Infantry on 12 April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was listed as missing in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was captured by members of the 12 Illinois Cavalry on 24 May 1863, place not given, and paroled the same day. There is no later military record for him.

References & notes

Service information from Henderson.1 His status at Sharpsburg from a casualty list for the Regiment printed in the Southern Recorder (Milledgeville, GA) on 21 October 1862.

Notes

1   Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964, Vol. 1, pg. 832  [AotW citation 21210]