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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Lemuel C. Cartwright

(1836 - 1891)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 25 year old farmer from Bear Bend in Montgomery County, TX, he enlisted there as a Private in Company H, 4th Texas Infantry on 24 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left hip about 1 May 1864 and was in hospitals in Charlottesville and Lynchburg, VA He was wounded again, in the hand and thigh on 6 October 1864, probably near Petersburg, VA, and was treated at the St. Francis de Sales hospital in Richmond, VA into February 1865. He was captured on 3 April 1865 in the Jackson Hospital in Richmond, VA and was paroled there on 3 May 1865. He took an oath of allegiance and signed another parole in the hospital on 29 July 1865, with no later military record.

L. C. Cartwright was the last man wounded in Company H during the war, losing an arm in 1865.

After the War

In 1880 he was farmer in Montgomery County, TX.

References & notes

Service information from Davis,1 as L.C. Cartwright, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. The quote above from "addenda to the original [Company H] roll on file at Austin" in Unveiling and Dedication of Monument to Hood's Texas Brigade ... (1905). Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850, 1860, and 1880.

He married Sarah Susan Lewis (1847-1898) in January 1871 in Montgomery, TX and they had 4 children.

His brother James was also with Company H at Sharpsburg.

Birth

12/15/1836; Montgomery County, TX

Death

1891; in TX

Notes

1   Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 159 - 161  [AotW citation 1873]

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 26910]