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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Harvey E. McKee

(1832 - 1864)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Phillips' (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company M, Phillips' Legion Infantry Battalion, on 28 April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of pneumonia, probably at the Piedmont Institute hospital, in Liberty (now Bedford), VA on 6 June 1864.

After the War

He was originally buried on Piedmont Hill but was reinterred, along with many other soldiers, in a mass grave in Longwood in 1921.

References & notes

His service from Graham.1 Details from family genealogists. His memorial is on Findagrave, site also of a modern stone.

He married Cynthia Hales (1830-1918) in 1850 and they had 5 children.

Birth

12/26/1832 in SC

Death

06/06/1864; Liberty, VA; burial in Longwood Cemetery, Bedford, VA

Notes

1 Graham, Kurt D., Phillips Georgia Legion - Infantry Battalion, first accessed 20 September 2012, <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/RandysTexas/page4.html>, Source page: /InfCoM.html [AotW citation 22007]

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