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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Pleasant Reed

(1824 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 26th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as First Sergeant of Company E, 26th Alabama Infantry on 7 December 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action near Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured.

The rest of the War

He was exchanged but died in a hospital, place not given, on 17 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from Fincham's roster,1 sourced from Tod L. Molsworth's O'Neal's 26th Alabama: the Little Regiment that Did (2000). Personal details from family genealogists.

His brother Hugh Reed was Captain of Company E.

Birth

01/29/1824; Rutherford County, TN

Death

10/17/1862

Notes

1 Fincham, Jr., Ray, Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry Regimental Histories - Alabama, Published 2005, first accessed 23 August 2020, <https://ranger95.com/civil_war/alabama/index.html>, Source page: /infantry/26ala_inf/26th_ala_inf_roster_e.htm [AotW citation 25519]

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