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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Leroy Edwards

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 16 year old farm worker on the W.L. Wilson place at Maplesville in Bibb County, AL. Giving his age as 19, he enlisted on 14 March 1862 at Six Mile, AL and mustered as a Private in Company F, 44th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

His father James filed for his final pay in August 1863.

References & notes

His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on a casualty list in the Montgomery Weekly Advertiser of 8 October 1862 as missing at Sharpsburg.

Birth

c. 1844 in AL

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=56810 [AotW citation 25734]

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 31669]

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