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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

Augustus Ray

(1837 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a married 23 year old farmer at Rockdale in Randolph County, AL, he enrolled at Arbacoochee, AL 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 and the US Census of 1860.

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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