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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Hezekiah Ponder Theus

(1842 - 1903)

Home State: Louisiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 9th Louisiana Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 19 year old farmer in Ringgold, Bienville Parish, he enlisted as Private, Company C, 9th Louisiana Infantry on 7 July 1861 at Camp Moore, LA.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was home on furlough to at least October 1863 and listed as disabled, unfit for active service to February 1864, but back with his Company from May to October 1864 with no later military record.

After the War

He was still a farmer in Bienville Parish in 1880 and was living in Minden, Webster Parish by 1900.

References & notes

Service from Booth.1 Details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Bythella Stallings (1855-1918) in 1874 or 1875 and they had 7 children.

Birth

10/1842 in GA

Death

1903; Minden, LA; burial in Minden City Cemetery, Minden, LA

Notes

1 Booth, Andrew B., Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, 3 Volumes, New Orleans: State of Louisiana, 1920, Vol. 3, Book 2, Part 2, pg. 799 [AotW citation 22325]

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