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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John Hamby

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From Henderson County, he enlisted in Athens, TX as a Private in Company K, 4th Texas Infantry on 15 July 1861.

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 on a furlough to Texas beginning 2 February 1863, but sometime afterwards was at Castle Thunder, a CS prison in Richmond, VA. He returned to his Company on 24 March 1863.

On 20 September 1864, a "deserter from Rebel Army" at City Point near Richmond, VA, he took an oath of allegiance to the US. He was sent to Washington, DC on the 21st and said he wanted to go to Louisville, KY. On the 22nd he was released and was provided transportation to Cleveland, OH. There is no later military record in his file.

References & notes

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3.

Notes

1   Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 164 - 165  [AotW citation 1924]

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 26937]