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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Gustavus A. Wynne

"Gus"

(c. 1837 - 1862)

Home State: Texas

Education: University of Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 23 year old clerk in Huntsville, Walker County, TX. He enlisted there as First Corporal of Company H, 4th Texas Infantry on 7 May 1861 and was promoted to 3rd Sergeant on 12 December 1861. He was wounded in the face at Gaines Mill, VA on 27 June 1862.

On the Campaign

Originally listed as missing in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. "Not heard from since" and noted as "died" on the muster roll for January and February 1863.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave, and has his death on 27 June 1863 in Virginia.

Birth

c. 1837; Greene County, AL

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 161 - 162 [AotW citation 1890]

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 26723]

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