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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Henry C. Stocks

(c. 1843 - ?)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 18, a farmer in Baldwyn, he enlisted on 1 May 1861 as Private, Company E, 2nd Mississippi Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was furloughed home to Mississippi for 60 days on 10 October 1862 and then returned to duty. He was wounded again, at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863. He was admitted to a hospital on 12 July and returned to duty on 7 August. He was listed as a deserter from camp near Orange Court House, VA on 10 February 1864 and was captured on 12 February 1864.

References & notes

His service from a casualty list/roster for the Campaign provided by Michael Brasher, from his research in Compiled Service Records, Company rolls, and other period sources. Further details from Don Ernsberger's Also for Glory Muster: The Story of the Pettigrew Trimble Charge at Gettysburg (2008). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1843

Death

Date not known; burial in Atkins City Cemetery, Atkins, AR