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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Rodolph A. Beecher

(? - 1863)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as a Private in Company G, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861 in Grimes County. He was 3rd Corporal by July 1862 and was promoted to 5th Sergeant on 11 September.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing but had been captured on South Mountain on 15 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to First Sergeant on 5 February 1863 and was present with his Company until he as killed at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, also as R.A. Boregher. His death from Polley.3

Death

07/02/1863; Gettysburg, PA

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 159 - 161 [AotW citation 1824]

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 26687]

3 Polley, Joseph Benjamin, Hood's Texas Brigade, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910, pg. 325 [AotW citation 26688]

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