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Confederate (CSA)

Private

Thomas E. Avery

(c. 1847 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 13 year old living with his mother Mary, 2 sisters, and 11 slaves on their farm at Bowdon in Carroll County, GA. He enlisted in Bowdon, GA as a Private in Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry on 20 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds by November 1862, place not given.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the roster appended to Hugh W. Barrow's Private James R. Barrow and Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry (1996) [pdf]. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1847 in GA

Death

1862

Notes

1 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 33665]

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