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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

Augustus Ray

(1837 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A married 24 year old farmer in Chulafinnee, AL, he enrolled at Arbacoochee on 24 April 1862 and was elected Jr. 2nd Lieutenant of Company I, 44th Alabama Infantry on 1 May. He was sick and not with his Company at 2nd Manassas on 30 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Service from the Alabama database.1 Personal details from family genealogists.

He married Matilda Roseanne Taylor (1841-1876) in July 1856 and they had two sons.

Birth

02/23/1837; Edgefield District, SC

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /civilwar/soldier.cfm?id=166062 [AotW citation 25472]

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